It's time to pass Employee Free Choice, Bashas' to close stores, Friday Morning News

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Employee Free Choice, on Tuesday over one million signatures were handed to congress on a petition urging congress to sign EFCA.

Workers to Congress: "It's time to pass Employee Free Choice"

Union leaders brought hundreds of their rank-and-file members and petitions that they said held 1.5 million signatures to Capitol Hill for a rally in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, escalating an already intense fight over the controversial bill. [Associated Press]

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