This report includes 13 essays on the Employee Free Choice Act, labor law, and unionization by professors and experts at nine universities and colleges throughout California. It addresses such topics as problems with current U.S. labor law; the potential impact of labor law reform on the economy; and how unionization affects such industries as the long-term care sector. Its contributors hail from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Southern California, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, and Occidental College.

In the context of the Employee Free Choice Act, John Logan compares the recognition and collective bargaining rights in the U.S. with those in Europe, Canada and other democracies, and argues that even with the passage of this legislation, the U.S. would still have relatively moderate recognition and bargaining rights. He also finds lessons for the U.S. debate on the Employee Free Choice Act from considering the example of Canada’s labor laws and practices.