By Doug Cunningham

The Employee Free Choice Act will be reintroduced in Congress this week. The labor law reform makes it easier to join unions by majority sign-up and puts teeth in the labor law to punish employers for violating the right to form unions. Kathy Ancil is a member of the Utility Workers union in Michigan. She says this labor reform is badly needed to restore the right of workers to organize without fear of employer retribution.

[Ancil]: “It’s so important to have that law into place. A recent survey was conducted and found that 69 percent of Americans would like to have a union or be involved in a union, except for retaliation or the concern for losing their job, or threatened or intimidated. The Employee Free Choice Act takes away from that intimidation. It takes it away.”