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Check Out Steelworkers Video on the Arkansas Rally for Employee Free Choice |
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The voices of 1,500 union, civil rights, community and faith activists cut through the thick, 100-degree heat and humidity July 11 in Little Rock.
Employee Free Choice now!
Employee Free Choice now!
Employee Free Choice now!
They were there to tell Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) it’s time to get off the fence and support the Employee Free Choice Act. They were fired up after hearing the Rev. Wendell Griffin describe how a union job provided for his father and mother and why every worker deserves the same opportunity his dad had.
Now you can hear his speech and see a slideshow—produced by the United Steelworkers (USW)—showing the vast and diverse crowd that marched and rallied for worker freedom that hot, hot summer day.
Words on a screen don’t do Griffin’s speech justice—you need click above to get their full impact, but here are excepts.
When one person is not free, all people are not free.
We are brothers and sisters, and when one worker is not safe, all workers are not safe.
We are bothers and sisters, and when one worker is not paid fairly, all workers are not paid fairly.
But the way for all workers to be paid fairly is for workers to have the right to organize fairly.
Griffin’s father worked for years in a nonunion sawmill, but the workers formed a union.
Then my father had a pension, and then my father got a raise, and then my father had safe place to work, and when my father died, my mother was a pensioner. And mother lived and died a respectable retirement life because my father was a union worker.
What my father had, every worker ought to have in Arkansas.
Turning his attention to Sen. Lincoln, Griffin said it was time for her to return working families’ long support for her.
The workers in Arkansas have supported her election after election. When she wanted a job, we gave her a job. When she wanted a raise, we gave her a raise. When she wanted a pension, we gave her a pension.
Now it’s our time.
Employee Free Choice now!
Employee Free Choice now!
Employee Free Choice now!
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It’s important that we don’t confuse the mass marketing campaign against EFCA with reality. It’s in the interest of corporations to vilify unions and workers who organize labor. I only hope that as this debate continues workers will remember the facts.
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