7-Year-Old Joins Thousands Writing to Congress for Employee Free Choice

by Seth Michaels, Apr 11, 2009

Among the thousands of people writing letters to Congress in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, we had to point out this one. The author, Alycia Melvin, is just 7 years old. 

Alycia is the granddaughter of a Machinists (IAM) member from North Carolina, and she tells Sen. Kay Hagan that when she grows up, she’d like to have the same choice they did: to join a union. She asks Hagan to support the Employee Free Choice Act. 

Alycia Melvin deserves to grow up in a world where she has the opportunity—just as her grandparents did—to join a union and bargain for a better life. She deserves the chance to have a say in her future workplace, and the power to get a fair contract, good benefits, good pay and equal treatment. 

Alycia’s grandparents know that the freedom to join a union is critical to making sure the economy works for everyone in the long term. That’s why thousands of workers around the country are writing to their senators to ask them to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act.

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