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| North Florida union members protest a meeting of an anti-union group in Jacksonville. |
As the Employee Free Choice Act gets closer to reality, the anti-worker disinformation campaign grows louder with corporate front groups throwing everything they have against workers. Across the country, union members and their allies are pushing back and letting the corporate titans know they won’t back down when it comes to the freedom to form unions.
In Wisconsin, union members converged in Milwaukee to protest an appearance by Karl Rove, the former Bush administration political enforcer who is traveling the country telling corporate executives to fight the Employee Free Choice Act. And in Florida, union members gathered in Jacksonville outside a meeting of an anti-union corporate group, the “Center for a Union-Free Workplace Environment,” to protest their opposition to workers’ freedom to bargain for a better life.
The AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff took on the anti-worker front groups directly, in a debate in Indianapolis against Randel Johnson of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. During his visit to Indiana, Acuff joined union members who went door to door in Evansville to talk with other union members about the Employee Free Choice Act. Acuff also took part in a working lunch in Clarksville, where union members wrote letters to their senators.
In Colorado, military veterans met over the weekend for a roundtable discussion to share thoughts on why the Employee Free Choice Act and the freedom to form unions matter to them, part of a national campaign of veterans around the country championing employee free choice. The Southern Maine Labor Council hosted a community meeting last week to focus on why we need the Employee Free Choice Act. And in Pennsylvania, a roundtable on this critical bill featured leaders from unions, faith groups and small business.
Union members and allies are gearing up across the country for next week’s congressional recess—with more than 100 events planned in key states—to ask members of Congress to quickly pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
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