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By Doug Cunningham

Workers from the Service Employees International Union are on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform. Mike Kingsbury, a nurse from Colorado, says workers need this reform making it easier to exercise their rights to join unions because it stops anti-union employer intimidation like he experienced.

[Kingsbury]: “Within fifteen minutes of my boss finding out that we were organizing the director of nursing, who I had never had a meeting with before and one of the other nurse managers from my unit sat me down in an office and talked with me for an hour and a half and just on and on and on about why unions were bad and why it was a bad idea and how misguided I was.”

Kingsbury says he and millions of workers nationwide want this labor reform to enforce their union rights. And he says the economic recovery won’t be complete without it.

[Kingsbury] : “Without the Employee Free Choice Act we’re not gonna have a good recovery. We won’t have a complete recovery until we can get something that guarantees workers some of the basic, fundamental rights. These are human rights.”

President Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act. He says unlike the Bush administration, which tried to undermine unions, labor will always have a seat at the table during his administration. He says unions are needed to have a strong middle class.