Business leaders fight card check bill; Opponents say union-backed legislation will promote divisions in workplace

Some of Maine's business leaders lobbed another salvo Wednesday in the fight over the Employee Free Choice Act, which supporters say would make it easier for unions to organize. >> Read the full article

Employee Free Choice Act Raises Concerns

Maine business leaders held a press conference in Bangor Wednesday to express their concerns about the proposed Employee Free Choice Act.  >> Read the full article

Collins needs to take stand for workers, unions

With the economy heading into recession, it's more important than ever workers achieve job security and receive the compensation they're entitled. A proposed federal law would help them do just that by making the process of organizing a union fairer. Maine Sen. Susan Collins filibustered this law last year even though it won bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress. >> Read the full article

Free Choice Act Deserves Support

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a proposed federal law that would make the process of forming a labor union fairer. Our congressman, Mike Michaud, is for it. But our two U.S. senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, have helped prevent the bill from even coming to a vote. I hope in the coming year they will reconsider their position and allow this important piece of legislation to be voted on by the U.S. Senate. >> Read the full article

Workers' Rights Group Marks Landmark Labor Anniversary

About 50 people at the forefront of the fight for workers' rights marked the 60th anniversary Wednesday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which among other things gave the nation's workers the right to unionize. >> Read the full article

The Right to Unionize

It's good that the Bangor Daily News highlights the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ("Eleanor's Declaration," Dec. 8) and that the BDN states that "few in the West would argue these basic claims that come with being human." One aspect of the human rights declaration not mentioned is "Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests" (Article 23, Section 4). >> Read the full article