Times-Union: Stan Swart on the Employee Free Choice Act

LABOR UNIONS

Give workers a choice

Many thanks for publishing John Parker's excellent letter explaining the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act. It is time to level the playing field" for workers seeking to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

This act will give workers - not management - the choice between a secret vote or a simple card check system.

As the situation now stands, many workers have actually lost their rights as citizens. In too many cases, we are seeing a return to the conditions made famous in a line from a song by Anne Feeney, The Union Maid: "Once unions were against the law, but slavery was fine."

It is time for the American people to fight back!

STANLEY L. SWART,

labor activist,

THE FLORIDA TIMES UNION (3/21/09)