Thank Your Senator for Co-Sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act

Your senator has co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that will restore workers’ freedom to make our own choice about whether to have a union so we can bargain for a better life—without interference from employers.

This is exactly what you sent your senator to Washington to do—work for working families.

Please use the form below to fax a message thanking your senator.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: Thank You for Co-Sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

Thank you for co-sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act, which will restore workers' freedom to choose for ourselves--without management intimidation--whether to form unions so we can bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions. By supporting this legislation, you are doing exactly what I helped send you to Washington to do--you are working for working families.

I consider the Employee Free Choice Act the most important legislation in 70 years for strengthening America's middle class and giving working men and women true economic opportunity. It's good to have a senator like you who recognizes its significance and will carry this fight for working families on Capitol Hill.

Union members know the best way for working families to get ahead is with a union contract. But the system for forming unions and bargaining for a better life is broken. It's been perverted by employers who use it to intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who just want to work together with their colleagues for a better deal. A fair deal.

The Employee Free Choice Act will restore a level playing field for workers.

Again, I thank you for supporting this important legislation and doing the work we sent you to Washington to do.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
April 16, 2007

Background Information

Union members know the best way for working families to get ahead is by bargaining collectively and gaining a union contract. Union members earn better wages, get better benefits and have better working conditions. We also have a real voice on the job, and the strength of millions of brothers and sisters gives us a powerful voice in the community and the nation.

But the system for forming unions and bargaining for a better life is broken. It’s been perverted by employers who use it to intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who just want to work together with their colleagues for a better deal. A fair deal.

The Employee Free Choice Act will restore a level playing field for workers. It will strengthen the penalties against companies that block workers’ freedom to choose for ourselves whether to form unions and bargain. It will bring in mediation and arbitration when employees and employers cannot reach a first contract. And it will allow working people to form unions when a majority signs authorization cards—without the conflict, disruption and intimidation employers routinely inflict on us now.