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Call to Action: On Dec. 10, Let's Expose Broken Workers' Rights System
The National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935 with the intention of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and … protecting the exercise by workers of the full freedom of association, self-organization and designation of representatives of their own choosing."
It doesn't work that way today. Instead, hundreds of corporations are using the same tactics as Comcast to pervert the original intention of the law and to deprive some 42 million workers of their collective bargaining and organizing rights.
"When workers attempt to win representation through the National Labor Relations Board process, employers can delay elections and delay bargaining for years," CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen said. "The bottom line is, workers who have no contract have no union, nor any of the benefits that go with it."
On Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, CWA, the AFL-CIO and Jobs with Justice will launch a massive campaign to educate the public that workers' rights are human rights, to use community pressure and to change labor law so that once again workers can organize and bargain freely. Unions will turn out thousands of workers and supporters that day, for hundreds of actions planned around the country.
CWA is taking the lead in three cities: Cleveland, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and has assigned staff contacts for 11 others: Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
"Dec. 10 is going to be a decisive date for the American labor movement," CWA President Morton Bahr said, in keeping with resolutions passed at the CWA convention and by 300 locals, urging every CWA local to participate. "New legislation is being introduced in Congress, and together we need to create a tidal wave of public awareness of the plight of workers seeking to exercise their right to form a union and the increasingly widespread violation of that right by employers."
For details and a complete list of staff contacts, visit ga.cwa-union.org, and under "Hot Topics," click on "Dec. 10."
For further information, e-mail Yvette Herrera, assistant to Cohen, at yherrera@cwa-union.org, or call her at (202) 434-1133.
It doesn't work that way today. Instead, hundreds of corporations are using the same tactics as Comcast to pervert the original intention of the law and to deprive some 42 million workers of their collective bargaining and organizing rights.
"When workers attempt to win representation through the National Labor Relations Board process, employers can delay elections and delay bargaining for years," CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen said. "The bottom line is, workers who have no contract have no union, nor any of the benefits that go with it."
On Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, CWA, the AFL-CIO and Jobs with Justice will launch a massive campaign to educate the public that workers' rights are human rights, to use community pressure and to change labor law so that once again workers can organize and bargain freely. Unions will turn out thousands of workers and supporters that day, for hundreds of actions planned around the country.
CWA is taking the lead in three cities: Cleveland, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and has assigned staff contacts for 11 others: Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
"Dec. 10 is going to be a decisive date for the American labor movement," CWA President Morton Bahr said, in keeping with resolutions passed at the CWA convention and by 300 locals, urging every CWA local to participate. "New legislation is being introduced in Congress, and together we need to create a tidal wave of public awareness of the plight of workers seeking to exercise their right to form a union and the increasingly widespread violation of that right by employers."
For details and a complete list of staff contacts, visit ga.cwa-union.org, and under "Hot Topics," click on "Dec. 10."
For further information, e-mail Yvette Herrera, assistant to Cohen, at yherrera@cwa-union.org, or call her at (202) 434-1133.