Your U.S. representative has agreed to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act—legislation that would restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life. To get ahead economically, working people need the freedom to choose whether to join together in unions to bargain for better wages and benefits because the current system is broken. Corporations routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers for trying to form unions. As a result, good jobs are vanishing and health care coverage and retirement security are slipping out of reach.

Fortunately, your representative gets it. But we need more than co-sponsors to pass the Employee Free Choice Act—we need leaders.

Please send the message below to urge your representative to take a leadership role by asking other House members to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am very pleased to learn from the AFL-CIO that you have agreed to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act, which will restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life. I hope I can count on you to go beyond co-sponsoring this important legislation and become a leader in getting it passed. Specifically, I urge you to encourage other House members to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.

Working people are struggling to make ends meet these days, and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity for working people to get ahead economically is to unite and bargain with our employers for better wages and benefits.

But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. The NLRB election process comes down to management-controlled balloting. The boss gets to influence how workers will vote on a union--then can drag the process out for months or even years while coercing workers before anyone gets the chance to cast a vote. One out of five activists who try to form unions is fired. Seventy-eight percent of private employers require supervisors to feed anti-union propaganda to the workers they oversee. Half of the employers threaten to shut down partially or totally if employees join together in a union. And even after workers successfully form a union, one-third of the time employers never negotiate a contract. There's nothing fair about it.

The Employee Free Choice Act would give working families an opportunity for a better life, level the playing field for workers and employers and help rebuild America's working class.

Please do all you can to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, starting by encouraging your House colleagues to join you in co-sponsoring it.

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Campaign Launched:
January 19, 2007