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CWA Over the Top in Kerry/Bush Postcard Campaign
CWA locals across the country have come through in labor's drive to thank Senator John Kerry for his support of bargaining and organizing rights and to let George W. Bush know we won't stop pointing out this key difference in the two presidential candidates' positions.
A postcard drive by the AFL-CIO has netted 150,000 signed postcards to be presented to the two candidates in battleground states prior to the Nov. 2 election. More than 77,000 were addressed to Senator Kerry, thanking him for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1925 and H.R. 3619), which would ensure that employers could no longer interfere and stall when a majority of employees in a workplace decides to form a union. Another 73,000 cards were addressed to President Bush, urging him to support the bill. Respondents submitted an additional 27,000 cards volunteering to help elect Kerry and help pass the Act.
"Amazingly, CWA members submitted 22 percent of all cards collected, far more than any other union," reported Andy Levin, AFL-CIO Voice@Work coordinator. "CWA's comprehensive efforts to involve its members in the fight to restore collective bargaining will be a benchmark for all of us as we gear up to pass the Employee Free Choice Act in 2005."
Said CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen: "Last Dec. 10, the AFL-CIO celebrated International Human Rights Day with demonstrations supporting U.S. collective bargaining rights in 99 cities, and CWA locals led the way in many of them. This summer CWA locals again led the way in collecting postcards at our worksites supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. But restoring collective bargaining rights in the United States is a long road, and there are no shortcuts. It will take more workplace mobilization, and organizing community support. And this work is exactly parallel to fighting for good contracts, since without collective bargaining reform every contract negotiation will only be harder."
Co-sponsorship for the Employee Free Choice Act has grown to 208 representatives and 35 senators, the AFL-CIO reported. Seven Republicans in the House and two in the Senate have broken ranks to support the bill, introduced by Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). They are Representatives Peter King, John McHugh, Jack Quinn and John Sweeney (N.Y); Steve LaTourette (Ohio); Rob Simmons (Conn.), and Chris Smith (N.J.); and Senators Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.).
A postcard drive by the AFL-CIO has netted 150,000 signed postcards to be presented to the two candidates in battleground states prior to the Nov. 2 election. More than 77,000 were addressed to Senator Kerry, thanking him for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1925 and H.R. 3619), which would ensure that employers could no longer interfere and stall when a majority of employees in a workplace decides to form a union. Another 73,000 cards were addressed to President Bush, urging him to support the bill. Respondents submitted an additional 27,000 cards volunteering to help elect Kerry and help pass the Act.
"Amazingly, CWA members submitted 22 percent of all cards collected, far more than any other union," reported Andy Levin, AFL-CIO Voice@Work coordinator. "CWA's comprehensive efforts to involve its members in the fight to restore collective bargaining will be a benchmark for all of us as we gear up to pass the Employee Free Choice Act in 2005."
Said CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen: "Last Dec. 10, the AFL-CIO celebrated International Human Rights Day with demonstrations supporting U.S. collective bargaining rights in 99 cities, and CWA locals led the way in many of them. This summer CWA locals again led the way in collecting postcards at our worksites supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. But restoring collective bargaining rights in the United States is a long road, and there are no shortcuts. It will take more workplace mobilization, and organizing community support. And this work is exactly parallel to fighting for good contracts, since without collective bargaining reform every contract negotiation will only be harder."
Co-sponsorship for the Employee Free Choice Act has grown to 208 representatives and 35 senators, the AFL-CIO reported. Seven Republicans in the House and two in the Senate have broken ranks to support the bill, introduced by Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). They are Representatives Peter King, John McHugh, Jack Quinn and John Sweeney (N.Y); Steve LaTourette (Ohio); Rob Simmons (Conn.), and Chris Smith (N.J.); and Senators Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.).