Maxwell, New NLRB Appointments: Change We Can Believe In
 |
||||
|
||||
It bears repeating: Elections have consequences.
Great news from the White House, as three new appointments over the weekend show President Barack Obama’s commitment to improving workers’ lives and protecting their freedom on the job. Mary Beth Maxwell will head to the U.S. Department of Labor, while two experienced worker advocates—Craig Becker and Mark Pearce—have been nominated to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Maxwell, the executive director of American Rights at Work and a strong advocate for the Employee Free Choice Act, has been named as a senior adviser to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and a member of Vice President Joe Biden’s Middle Class Task Force. She’ll bring to the administration a history of speaking out in support of workers and their freedom to bargain for a better life.
New Video Lays Out the Case for Employee Free Choice
 |
|
Across the country, a campaign is under way to turn around the economy and make it work for everyone again by passing the Employee Free Choice Act, a critical bill to restore the freedom to form unions and bargain. Despite public support for the freedom to bargain in the workplace, the Employee Free Choice Act has come under heavy fire from big-money corporate lobbyists and shady front groups hoping to defeat it and preserve corporate domination over the process. The AFL-CIO has a new video to cut through the deceptive campaign and give the facts about the Employee Free Choice Act.
Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, narrates the 10-minute video. She says that while emergency action is needed to create jobs and help the economy recover, turning around the economy in the longer term means giving workers the power to bargain for a better life.
Watch Mary Beth Maxwell Discuss Employee Free Choice on C-SPAN
On Friday, Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work, appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” for a great interview about the importance of quickly passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
In the half-hour interview, Maxwell described our badly broken system for forming unions, how it has undermined workers’ bargaining power and the economy, and how the Employee Free Choice Act will restore workers’ freedom to form unions without corporate harassment and intimidation, allowing them to bargain for a better life. Maxwell took questions from viewers around the country and cut through the misconceptions about the Employee Free Choice Act.
