Done Workers want and need a real, democratic voice on the job so that they can participate in creating more productive workplaces and in determining the terms and conditions under which they work. Companies should be required to recognize a union selected by a majority of employees and to bargain collectively with that union. Employers who interfere in the formation of unions should be subject to stiff penalties. And employers should not be allowed to permanently replace striking workers. The Republican Agenda Republican congressional leaders have no use for unions or for collective bargaining.
Unions stand in their way.
That's why they're trying to make it even more difficult for workers to form unions and easier for employers to break unions. As a result, management could create an employee organization, write the rules, choose the leaders, and deal with those hand-picked representatives as if they were the real voice of the workers. Passage of the TEAM Act would give employers a new tool for busting unions. An employer could create a company union and pay all its costs. The employer could then deal with the company union instead of with the real union, and could even grant concessions to the company union that it would not otherwise agree to with the legitimate union.