Around the Internet: The Fight to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
isn’t just a union fight [snip]. It’s about whether we can return to an economy with a broad middle class. When unions represented 30 percent of the private economy, they won family wages, health care, pensions, paid vacations—the basics of middle-class existence. Rising union wages and benefits helped lift the wages of nonunion workers as well. America has never done much redistribution through taxes. We built a middle class because workers were able to win a decent share of the profits and productivity that they helped to generate. Unions were central to that.
As the president suggests, this is a central fight for an economy that works. If workers are paid decently, families needn’t take on massive debts to educate their children or afford their home.
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