• Today, working families are struggling to make ends meet. The middle class is shrinking, and the American Dream is slipping out of reach for working people.

• The best chance for workers to get ahead is to join a union.

• Union members earn about 30 percent higher wages than non-union workers. Workers in unions are 62 percent more likely to have employer health coverage, and four times as likely to have a pension.

• In spite of record profits, corporations and their high-paid CEOs skimp on their workers’ wages and benefits.

• When workers try to form unions to improve their lives, companies often harrass, intimidate, and threaten them. In fact, when faced with workers who try to form a union, 25 percent of employers fire workers for their union support.

• If more workers were able to join unions, you would have more power to negotiate better contracts with your company at the bargaining table.

• The Employee Free Choice Act is a bill that would ultimately mean better wages, benefits and working conditions for all workers.

• Employee Free Choice provides workers a simple one-step process to join a union when a majority freely chooses a voice on the job.

• CEOs negotiate their contracts—Employee Free Choice ensures workers have the same right.

• Sixty million workers in America say they would join a union if they could—Employee Free Choice would make that possible.

• Who’s opposed to Employee Free Choice? Corporations that want to stop workers from having a voice to demand a better standard of living. Businesses that don’t want to provide health care for their employees. Employers who want to maintain a system that favors the corporate elite rather than working people.

• A majority in Congress supports the Employee Free Choice Act. Momentum is growing for this legislation because Americans are concerned about the economy and want policies to restore the middle class.

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For more information about the Employee Free Choice Act and to sign up online to support the bill, please visit www.ufcwforfreechoice.org.