[scroll to bottom for audio] ...[The] Employee Free Choice Act...would strengthen workers’ rights protections in the US and bring them more in line with international standards that the US claims to support... Current US labor law...lets employers do all sorts of things to keep workers from unionizing... These obstacles are often too big for a worker or a nascent union to overcome. Even if they do, they may not be able to reach a collective agreement because the law doesn’t really punish employers who engage in bad-faith negotiating... EFCA would strengthen workers rights, not undermine them as so many of its opponents charge.