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Today, US labor laws do not meet international standards. Under international law, employers cannot mount aggressive and coercive anti-union campaigns that interfere with worker organizing or retaliate against workers for supporting a union. But US laws permit myriad employer tactics that interfere with worker organizing and provide penalties so weak that they fail to adequately deter employers from breaking the laws.

Employers often consider the minimal penalties for violating US labor laws a small price to pay for a union-free workplace. In most cases of employer violations, the National Labor Relations Board simply orders the offending employer to restore the status quo prior to the illegal activity and post a notice that it will not repeat the unlawful conduct. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would strengthen the penalties for anti-union discrimination. It would also require employers to recognize a union when a majority of workers demonstrate their support through signed worker authorizations, helping ensure that workers who wish to form unions can do so.

The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800 and S. 1041) is bipartisan legislation. It passed the House on March 1, 2007, by 241 to 185 and is pending in the Senate. Enactment of the EFCA would send a message to workers in the United States and around the world that this country supports fundamental rights for workers. Please urge your senator to vote in favor of the EFCA.

Act Now! Ask Wal-Mart to Stop Undercutting Workers' Right to Organize

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) is a case study in what is wrong with US labor laws. Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States with over 1.3 million US workers and close to 4,000 stores nationwide. None of those workers is in a union. This is no accident. Wal-Mart employs a sophisticated and multifaceted strategy to prevent union activity at its US stores and, when that strategy fails, quashes organizing wherever it starts.

Wal-Mart is not alone among US companies in its efforts to combat union formation following the incentives set out in unbalanced US labor laws that tilt the playing field decidedly in favor of anti-union agitation. It is also not alone in violating weak US labor laws and taking advantage of ineffective labor law enforcement. Wal-Mart stands out, however, for the sheer magnitude and aggressiveness of its anti-union apparatus and actions.

Please write to Wal-Mart's CEO expressing your concern about Wal-Mart's violations of workers' rights to organize.