[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Labor Day e-Action for Employee Free Choice

Thu Aug 28 17:52:23 EDT 2008

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 <http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/D7zCzo715cHw/>
<http://www.jwj.org/efca.html> sign up now!
<http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/D7zCzo715cHw/> Join the One Million for the
Employee Free Choice Act Mobilization 

As this Labor Day approaches, quality employment opportunities and paychecks
are shrinking, the cost of fuel and health care continue to skyrocket, and
working families are struggling to make ends meet.  In these tough times,
workers and our communities need fair opportunities to get ahead. 

It's no coincidence that as union membership has declined, the gap between
rich and poor has widened.  Workers in unions earn 28% higher wages, and are
62 percent more likely to have employer-covered health coverage, and they
are 386% more likely to have guaranteed pensions.  Allowing more workers to
freely join unions and bargain with their employers will help rebuild the
middle class by expanding health care, improving retirement security, and
raising the standard of living for all working families.

Sign up to support the Employee Free <http://www.jwj.org/efca.html>  Choice
Act!

In search of record profits, corporations and their high-paid CEOs often
trample on the human rights of workers.  While business executives demand
high-dollar contracts to protect their pay and benefits, corporations
routinely block employees' efforts to gain the same opportunity with a
union.  In fact, employers illegally fire workers in 25% of private-sector
organizing campaigns; 78% require supervisors to deliver anti-union messages
to the workers whose jobs and pay they control; and even after workers
successfully form a union, they can't get a contract one third of the time.
Workers deserve a fair chance to join a union.

Passing the Employee Free Choice Act is the chance of our lifetime to change
the rules of the game.  The Employee Free Choice Act will make it easier for
women and men to form or join a union when they choose to in their
workplace. This legislation would give workers a fair and direct path to
form unions through majority sign-up, help employees secure a contract with
their employer in a reasonable period of time, and toughen penalties against
employers who violate their workers' rights.  With a free choice to join
unions, working people can bargain for better pay, health care and pensions
and build a better life themselves and their families.

There is no better time than now to hold decision makers accountable for
staying true to the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of speech and
association.  We are the ones we've been waiting for!

Help us reach the <http://www.jwj.org/efca.html>  goal of one million
petition signers in support of the Employee Free Choice Act!

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