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Employee Free Choice Act
 Congress will vote
on the Employee Free Choice Act soon. So we need to
work now to get the attention of our two US Senators.
Please utilize the links to tell Johnny and Saxby to
do the right thing, Vote Yes on the Employee Free
Choice Act. Both Senators have committed to vote
against the Act and have spoken publicly in opposition
to the Act but we can not let them think that everyone
else shares that opinion. Please call them today and
TELL them to do the right thing. VOTE YES on Employee
Free Choice and restore workers right to organize and
bargain.
Tell
them to stop the lies. Tell them that the Employee
Free Choice DOES NOT take away the right to a "secret
ballot" it just takes that decision from companies and
lets workers decide.
Tell
them that today the so called secret ballot elections
held on company property after numerous delays,
threats of plant closure and after company supervisors
or high paid consultants have interviewed each
employee individually are not really "secret" or fair
and that you want that changed.
Tell
them that today even if workers win one of the company
rigged "secret ballot" elections the company can stall
negotiations indefinitely, sometimes more than a dozen
years and you want that changed.
Tell
them that today companies can and do fire workers for
trying to organize and they do it with impunity and
that you want that changed. Tell them the Employee
Free Choice Act is the change workers need.
You
probably will not get to speak to the Senator directly
but tell there aide that you want things changed so
workers can organzine and bargain. If you
don't do anything else this year to help your
union...do this!
Their
numbers are:
Chambliss202-224-3521
Isakson
202-224-3643
If you
don't want to call you can click the link in the Side
bar to send a fax.
And if
you have not already done so take our poll.
Click here or copy and past this url into your
browser.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=x2RoPRVcrXpGGxbwp_2bUJoQ_3d_3d
Thanks
In
Solidarity,
Georgia
AFL-CIO WIN
Yours
in Solidarity
Georgia
AFL-CIO WIN
Send
a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Your
Senators
Below is the sample letter:
Subject: Vote for the Employee Free Choice Act
Dear
[decision maker name automatically inserted here],
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
labor legislation in over 70 years. The Act will
insure our freedom to bargain for better wages,
benefits and working conditions. It is the key to
rebuilding America's middle class and insuring working
families a real chance for prosperity.
Today, less than 30 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 provides the
best way for working people to get ahead economically,
to insure a better future for our children and to
rebuild America's middle class.
I know corporate lobbyists are trying to convince you
to vote against the Employee Free Choice Act. They are
telling you that unions are trying to take away
employees' "precious right to vote". This is not t
rue. Employees will still be able to petetion for a
vote. This legislation just insures they will have the
right to a union without having to run a gauntlet of
armed guards to get it. If this legislation denied
employees the opportunity to vote to have a union the
corporate lobbyist would not be saying a word about
workers "right" to vote. Do you really think that Wall
Street CEOs and Chamber of Commerece presidents care
about workers' rights?
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
and will help blunt thepower of greedy Corporate CEOs.
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 and intimidation 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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