Co-Sponsors of the Employee Free Choice Act
Your Representative Must Hear from You NOW: Employee Free Choice Act Vote is Thursday
This is the last push before the U.S. House of Representatives votes Thursday on the Employee Free Choice Act—the most important legislation in 70 years to ensure our freedom to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions.
Lobbyists for the corporate front groups opposing the Employee Free Choice Act are all over Capitol Hill right now. Congress is definitely hearing from them. Before the House votes, make sure your representative is hearing your voice, too.
Please use the following form to send a fax urging your U.S. representative to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, with no limiting amendments.
| Sample Letter for Campaign |
Subject: Vote for the Employee Free Choice Act
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I urge you to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act and to reject any limiting amendments that might be proposed.
The Employee Free Choice Act is the most important legislation in 70 years to ensure our freedom to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions. It is the key to rebuilding America's middle class and ensuring working families a real chance for prosperity.
Today, only 38 percent of Americans feel we're getting ahead financially--and less than a quarter of us believe our children's generation will be better off. Being able to bargain collectively through a union provides the best way for working people to get ahead economically, to ensure a better future for our children and to rebuild America's middle class.
I know corporate lobbyists are trying to convince Congress to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. They want companies to retain their ability to block us when we try to form unions and bargain. I want to be sure you are hearing my voice as well and that you understand the Employee Free Choice Act is the top priority for America's working families because it's our best chance to get ahead economically.
The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers' freedom to make our own choice about whether to have a union so we can bargain for a better life--without unfair interference from management. We need this legislation because today's system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Employers routinely coerce, intimidate, harass, threaten and even fire workers who dare to try.
It's time to change that--and you can do so by voting for the Employee Free Choice Act, with no limiting amendments.
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is extremely important to me. I will be watching the vote.
Sincerely,
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