20 March 2009  AIG Shows Why We Need the Employee Free Choice
Act  (Note: this is a cross-post from the Campaign for America's
Future by our friend Mike Elk. Definitely worth reading)  At
first, it might seem a bit odd that Bank of America and
Citigroup paid for a conference call to coordinate a campaign
against the Employee Free Choice Act. Why would Bank of America
and Citigroup be so interested in hosting efforts against a
measure that would allow workers to more easily join unions,
since unionization has traditionally had little appeal for
financial service workers? As a union organizer, I've never
heard of stockbrokers wanting to unionize.  The real interest
big banks have in opposing unions and the Employee Free Choice
Act lies in the unions' role in preventing corporate greed.
Unions are a countervailing force against corporate greed in a
market that has proven incapable of regulating itself. One
example is the 2003 dismissal of New York Stock Exchange
Chairman Dick Grasso. CalPERS—the California Publ