Henderson Tells Convention: Employee Choice Is Civil Rights Issue
As the AFL-CIO Convention prepared to vote on Resolution 1 on organizing, Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), told the delegates that the freedom to form unions is a civil rights issue.
He called for Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and pledged that the civil rights community will work “shoulder to shoulder” with workers to pass the bill.
Union participation can begin to lift the dead weight of decades of discrimination. For African Americans, women and Latinos the best way to build a better life is to join together with others to form a union.
Some Anti-Worker CEOs Not Working with a Full Deck
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Denise Bowyer, vice president of American Income Life Insurance Co. and secretary of American Income Life’s Labor Advisory Board, says casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is playing the wrong cards when it comes to the Employee Free Choice Act.
In recent days, Sheldon Adelson, casino billionaire, had this to say about the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that if enacted, would level the playing field for workers seeking to join unions:
The Employee Free Choice Act is one of the two fundamental threats to society. [The other is "radical Islam.]
Give me a break: Employees choosing to form and how to form a union is not a threat to society. Truth be told, Sheldon Adelson, the fiercely anti-union billionaire casino mogul knows that passing the Employee Free Choice Act is a high-stakes game, and the only fundamental threat is to his bottom line.
Women Worldwide Are Paid Even Less Than We Thought
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In the current global economic crisis when jobs and living standards for millions of workers are threatened, a new report reveals the pay gap between men and women worldwide may be much higher than previously believed. The report, Gender (in)Equality in the Labor Market, puts the global pay gap at up to 22 percent, rather than the official government figure of 16.5 percent reported last year.
The report, released today by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in advance of International Women’s Day, March 8, reaffirms what union members already know: Women who belong to unions earn more than nonunion women and receive better pay relative to their male co-workers. Click here to read the entire report.
