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As Congress Recesses, Campaign for Employee Free Choice Goes into High Gear |
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Members of Congress return to their districts this weekend for a two-week recess, and when they get there, they’ll be greeted with unprecedented grassroots energy in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.
Hundreds of rallies, community meetings and events will take place over the next two weeks as workers and their allies demand that members of the House and Senate act quickly to protect employees’ freedom to form a union and bargain.
The broad coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act includes union members and their families, religious groups, students, civil rights organizations and small business owners. They’ll reach out to thank supporters and ask those who haven’t signed on yet to co-sponsor the critical bill. This outpouring of support, which will include phone banks, letters and personal meetings with elected officials, will be accompanied by a new ad running in key states.
The ad, “Fabric of America,” talks about the benefits that come with the ability of workers to choose a union and bargain: health care, pensions, fair wages and job security.
The ad echoes the message delivered by workers across the country: To make the economy work for everyone again, we need to restore the freedom to form a union. It’s an important message in the face of big-dollar corporate disinformation campaigns.
Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work, says the next two weeks are critical to passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, and that workers and their allies will rise to the occasion:
This recess we will not allow our leaders to forget that workers across the country are counting on them to make the economy work for everyone again. There is an unwavering commitment by a majority of lawmakers to restore our middle class and give workers back the freedom to bargain for a better life. Our ramped-up efforts send a strong message to the rest of Congress that we can, we must, and we will pass the Employee Free Choice Act this year.
In this critical time, the mobilization of thousands of union members and their allies will send a strong message to their members of Congress: We need to put balance back in our labor laws and give workers, not their bosses, the freedom to choose how to join a union.
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As Congress Recesses, Campaign for Employee Free Choice Goes into High Gear.
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The Fight has yet to begun - NO Surrender - NO Retreat !
The Employee Free Choice Act EFCA Will be Passed !
Steve Maritas International Organizing Director SPFPA.
http://www.SPFPA.Org
Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dedication to Working Families
“We must work unceasingly to uplift this nation that we love to a higher destiny, to a higher plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In solidarity,
Tula
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Not in Riverside or Hemet Area. Representative Jerry Lewis dose not believe in this.