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If you’d like to follow this session live, we’ll be covering it on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/aflcio ).
Thursday kicks off the second annual Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh.
And at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, we’ll be discussing one of the most critical changes that progressives are fighting for, both online and off—the Employee Free Choice Act.
Here are the folks who will weigh in at the afternoon panel, “The Secret Plan to Defeat the Right Forever,” on why labor law reform like the Employee Free Choice Act must be a top progressive priority:
- Stewart Acuff, special assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO. A longtime organizer and the former director of organizing for the AFL-CIO, Acuff has traveled the country in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Jake McIntyre, a front page writer at Daily Kos and assistant to the secretary-treasurer of the Bricklayers (BAC).
- Tanya Tarr, director of legislative and political mobilization for the Texas AFT and a specialist on union voter turnout.
- Elana Levin of Workers United, a writer with a long record in collaboration between the union movement and the progressive netroots.
Panelists will talk about:
- Why union membership matters to workers, to communities and to the progressive movement.
- How the current system for forming unions is broken, preventing workers from joining together.
- How the Employee Free Choice Act will rebuild worker power.
- Where we are in the fight for labor law reform, and how the netroots can take part.
It’ll be a great session. If you can’t be there in person, you can follow online, here at the blog or on Twitter.
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Why union membership matters to workers, to communities and to the progressive movement.
Don’t you folks realize that if the current version of EFCA gets passed, it will force more good Americans to become victims of Forced Unionism? How can you possibly support that?