What is the Employee Free Choice Act?

The Employee Free Choice Act, supported in 2007 by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. It would:

• Establish stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
• Provide mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes (PDF).
• Allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

Find Out More

• Read the text of the Employee Free Choice Act.
  • Download a summary of the bill (PDF).
• Key facts about the Employee Free Choice Act.
• Employee Free Choice Act questions and answers.
• Why Does America Need the Employee Free Choice Act? (PDF)