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Franken Wins! |
Tuesday afternoon, after a grueling recount process,
former Sen. Norm Coleman finally conceded defeat and
congratulated Al Franken on his Senate victory in
Minnesota. Franken is a longtime union member and
supporter of workers' rights.
Sen. Franken is expected to take a seat on the powerful
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee,
where he will play a key role in health care reform.
Additionally, his full support for the Employee Free
Choice Act brings us that much closer to securing 60
Senate votes for workers' freedom to form unions and
bargain for a better life.
— Marc Laitin, AFL-CIO Online Mobilization
Coordinator
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Every Fourth of July is an opportunity to celebrate the freedom
we have, while remembering the freedoms for which we are still
fighting. Our key fight now is about whether the workplace is a
place of dignity—or of absolute employer power.
It’s a fight over the basic question of whether workers’ rights at
work, health care and pensions are fundamental to having a decent
life—or luxuries that only CEOs and investment bankers get to enjoy.
This is why we are fighting for the Employee Free Choice
Act.
We are fighting for the people who do the real work of our
society—who build our cities, teach our children and run into
burning buildings when everyone else runs out. The people who make
power plants work, tend the mentally ill and collect garbage. The
people who staff hospitals, fly planes, drive buses, build ships,
harvest produce and perform thousands of other critical jobs.
These people are why we are fighting for the Employee Free
Choice Act.
We can only win this fight together, so join me on this
Independence Day weekend and send a message to your representatives
in Washington: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act because every
worker deserves the freedom to join a union and bargain for a better
life.
Write your representative and senators today.
America’s workers need all of us to keep fighting for our
freedom.
John J. Sweeney
AFL-CIO President |
