Labor's Allies Travel to DC to Fight for Employee Free Choice

More than 300 activists from around the country, representing small business, veterans, farmers, civil rights and faith leaders and other allies went to Capitol Hill to tell their members of Congress that the Employee Free Choice Act is critical to rebuilding America's economy.

CWAers escorted groups that visited with members of the Arkansas Democratic delegation, including Senators Blanche Lincon and Mark Pryor and Representatives Vic Synder and Mike Ross.

The activists said that they support Employee Free Choice for a number of reasons, including these:  

• We can best grow a new, clean energy economy with high-road jobs and a skilled, union workforce.
• Our faiths teach us that workers have a fundamental right to make their own decisions about bargaining with their employers, and to have jobs with dignity, safe working conditions, and a living wage.
• Unions improve the lives of working people regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, and union membership lifts wages significantly for women and people of color.
• Respecting rights in the workplace leads to civic participation at home and thus better public policies that serve the needs of the entire community.