Senate Vote This Morning on Employee Free Choice   by Tula Connell, Jun 26, 2007

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The Senate will continue debate this morning on the Employee Free Choice Act and likely will vote for cloture on the bill before noon.  The cloture motion will determine if the Senate is even allowed a straight up or down vote on the Employee Free Choice Act.

It’s our last chance to contact senators and urge them to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act. Contact your senators here. 

The act would level the playing field for workers seeking to join unions. The act would ensure workers have the option to choose a union either through a secret ballot election or majority sign-up (card-check). It also would help eradicate much of the employer intimidation and harassment workers now face when seeking to form a union.

Debbie Fontaine, who was fired by Rite Aid for trying to form a union, was called into the boss’s office and screamed at for her support of a union as he pounded the desk. With that type of intimidation, Fontaine says:

A lot of employees are afraid that if Rite Aid fired me, they will fire everyone who supports the union.

Thank your senators who are voting for Employee Free Choice. And for those who don’t, remind them working families will remember they did not do right by Fontaine and the 60 million workers in the United States who say they would join a union if they could.

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