Tell Congress: Restore Our Rights

The Bush administration has gone too far this time. Its National Labor Relations Board—which is supposed to protect our workplace rights—has invited employers to rob millions of workers of their right to be in a union.

Please send the following message to your U.S. senators and representative and tell them to restore our rights.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: Restore Rights the NLRB Is Taking from Workers

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am outraged that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has invited employers to rob working people of their freedom to be in unions just by reclassifying them as "supervisors" who do not have federal labor law protections.

The Bush administration has been sawing away at our workplace rights for six years--often with the help of congressional allies. This time it's gone too far. I urge you to take whatever steps are needed to restore our rights.

My freedom to choose for myself whether to belong to a union and bargain collectively is extremely important to me. At election time, I support candidates who support my workplace rights. Do you? Your action on this matter will shape my vote in this and future elections.

I would appreciate hearing back from you about what you will do to restore the rights the Bush NLRB is stealing from America's working people.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
October 04, 2006


Background Information

In one bold and unjust stroke, President Bush’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has invited employers to rob workers of their freedom to have a union by simply reclassifying them as “supervisors.” 

The Bush-appointed board’s decision Friday in the lead “Kentucky River” case could take away union rights from up to 8 million workers. As stated by the dissenting NLRB members, the decision “threatens to create a new class of workers under federal labor law: workers who have neither the genuine prerogatives of management, nor the statutory rights of ordinary employees.”

Our workplace rights are in shreds thanks to six years of rule by Bush and his party’s leadership in Congress. They’ve been hard at work serving the rich and wealthy corporations while hacking away at our rights to overtime pay, safe jobs, fair pay, health care, retirement security and our ability to form unions and bargain with employers for a better life.

But this time they’ve gone too far. We’re not going to take this latest assault. Many senators and all U.S. representatives are campaigning for re-election right now. They want our votes—and that gives us the strength to be heard. Tell your members of Congress if they want your vote, they have got to restore the rights the Bush-appointed labor board is stealing from us.