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Former New York senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has been confirmed as secretary of state, and tomorrow, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand will take the oath of office as New York’s newest senator.
With Clinton, New York’s working families had a strong advocate for good jobs and the freedom to form unions and bargain, so Gillibrand has big shoes to fill. Although she hasn’t been in Congress long, she’s been a strong supporter of the needs of working families.
In her first term in Congress, Gillibrand signed on as a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act and voted to pass it in March 2007.
In addition to her support for the Employee Free Choice Act, Gillibrand earned a 98 percent rating from the AFL-CIO in 2007 and 2008, backing working families with her votes on children’s health care, fair pay, unemployment benefits, workplace safety and other critical issues. At the press conference where Gov. David Paterson announced Gillibrand’s appointment Friday, she was introduced by New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, who said he looked forward to working with Gillibrand in the Senate.
The new senator-designate takes office amid an economic crisis that has resulted from the collapse of a balance of power in the workplace, leaving workers unable to fight for the benefits, fair wages and security they need. We’re hopeful that Gillibrand will continue to fight for working families and the freedom to form unions.
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The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Spreads MORE LIES Again about the Employee Free Choice Act
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace an organization, it should be noted, that opposes the Employee Free Choice Act has released a McLaughlin & Associates poll showing opposition to card check legislation among union households. The poll also included a larger sample of voters. Its findings, according to a statement:
Three out of four voters (74%) oppose the “The Employee Free Choice Act”. Union households also strongly oppose the Employee Free Choice Act, 74% oppose to only 20% support.
When given a more detailed description of the Employee Free Choice Act, nearly 9 out of 10 voters, 86%, feel the process should remain private and only 8% feel it should be public information. Again, even union workers feel strongly that the process should be kept private, as 88% said private and only 8% said public.
Four out of five voters, or 82%, favor having a federally supervised election as a means to “protect the individual rights of workers”. The voters clearly see this as a basic right, especially given that only 11% of voters feel the card check would be the best way to protect the individual rights of workers. Support increases to 85% among union households.
The majority (52% to 26%) of American voters believe that the Employee Free Choice Act is not good for job creation. Even among union households, the plurality (48%) believes that the Employee Free Choice Act will cost America jobs.
In the current economic climate, 52% of voters are particularly opposed to any measure that would risk jobs or job growth.
Further exemplifying the electorates’ distaste for the Employee Free Choice Act, 71% agreed that this legislation would be “unwise” and “risky”. In today’s economic climate, the electorate has little confidence in the federal government’s ability to make such major business decisions.
Union busting is a field populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and a war on truth. As such, it is a war without honor. The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack.
Martin Jay Levitt, 1993, Confessions of a Union Buster
For More Information on EFCA please visit our website and blog
http://www.employeefreechoiceactnow.org
http://efcanow.blogspot.com/
http://www.FreeChoiceActNow.Org
http://www.LaborUnionResources.Org
http://www.spfpa.org/UnionBusterPagemakerBrochure.pdf
Ms. Gillibrand is urgently needed in the battle to oppose such anti-EFCA lobbyists such as the Orwellian doublethink named Coalition for a Democratic Workplace :
Coalition for a Democratic Workplace =
AstroTurf ( fake grass-roots organization )
“The CDW is an AstroTurf organization of the National Association of Manufacturers, who aren’t exactly pro-worker.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/7/9627/04663/669/494628