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In Radio Ad, Sheen Asks Senators to Support Employee Free Choice Act
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| Actor Martin Sheen is joining the fight for Employee Free Choice. |
Going from TV president to real-life activist, “The West Wing” actor Martin Sheen is taking to the airwaves in a new radio ad in support of the Employee Free Choice Act and workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain.
Playing in four states, the ad is a project of Catholics for Working Families, one of the many faith groups around the nation supporting the Employee Free Choice Act.
In the ad, Sheen—a Catholic and a longtime union member—talks about the decline in union membership in the decades since he first joined a union, and how that’s undermined workers’ power in the economy:
As CEOs receive massive salaries and bonuses, working families continue to struggle. A bill in Congress called the Employee Free Choice Act will provide a fair and democratic process for workers to form unions, and that will help build a more just economy—an economy that promotes families, an economy that values human life and serves everyone, not just the people at the top.
Making an appeal to social justice, Sheen asks senators in four key states—Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alaska and California—to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Sheen also joined with workers in March in support of Employee Free Choice, kicking off the “Faces of the Employee Free Choice Act” campaign along with other “West Wing” cast members.
You can listen to the ad here.
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Great radio ad. If there was ever a time for the Employee Free Choice Act, that time is now. Not only is it nearly impossible to form a union without fear and intimidation by employers, but union-busting has grown into a $4 billion a year business in the U.S. alone.
Companies that previously had good relationships with their union employees have been emboldened by weak labor laws. One of those is the McGraw-Hill Companies. Read more at:
http://nabetcwa54.org
From The Field
The Hill – 2 hours ago
EFCA war spills onto Twitter
The group, operating in apparent association with a primitive website called http://www.thetruthaboutefca.org/ links to a pro-EFCA petition in its Twitter feed,
Its NOT A CON – Just A Clever Move by EFCANow Twitter feed to broadened its reach well beyond the 2,274 followers it has on the popular micro-blogging site. In fact, by adding the names of two prominent EFCA opponents, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who boasts more than 238,000 followers, and former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis, who has 8,000 followers of his own, the pro-EFCA group’s message reached those who follow two anti-EFCA activists.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/efca-war-spills-onto-twitter-2009-05-04.html