Don't let them take anymore workers rights.

[Buxtehude]

This country was built on the backs of working men and women. Without strong unions we would have no middle class.
Reagan did much to hurt the unions, but this Conservative, business friendly adminstration seems bent on finishing the job.
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Dear XXXXXX,

Big Business Attacks


The Chamber of Commerce, the American Hospital Association and other Big Business front groups are asking their Bush-appointed friends on the NLRB to further erode legal protections for workers’ freedom to form unions. Tell your members of Congress to urge the NLRB to get the whole story by allowing a full hearing with oral arguments before ruling on these cases.

Have you ever showed a colleague at work how to perform a task? Have you ever been asked to look over someone else’s work? If so, the federal labor board is poised to further limit your freedom to form a union and join with your co-workers to bargain collectively for a better life.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), currently dominated by pro-corporate Bush-appointees, soon will decide three cases that could further attack workers’ basic rights in America. If the NLRB rules against workers and broadens the definition of “supervisor,” hundreds of thousands of workers could be stripped of their contract protections and even more workers could be denied their freedom to form unions.

Contact your representatives in Congress today and urge them to stop the assault on your freedom to join a union. Tell them to urge NLRB Chairman Robert J. Battista to hold oral arguments on these important cases.

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In the upcoming decisions, skilled and experienced workers such as registered nurses, who give instructions to co-workers about how and when to perform certain tasks, are particularly vulnerable to reclassification as supervisors. For example, nurses who tell nurses aides to do certain things for particular patients and journeymen/building trades workers who direct other workers on a crew are at risk.

These decisions have the potential to affect a wide range of workers, including those in the building and construction, broadcast, energy, shipping and other industries. This is just another case of the Bush-appointed NLRB working to remove the power of working people by excluding many from union eligibility while cutting the bargaining power of those who remain.

You can make a difference. Contact your U.S. representative and senators today and tell them to urge the NLRB to hold oral arguments on these crucial cases so workers have a voice.

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/kyriver?rk=0p17%2dx61GcIpE

Thank you for all you do.

In solidarity,

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO

P.S. Starting July 10, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates will come together in a national week of action to stop the Bush NLRB’s assault on our rights. We’ll send you more details as the date approaches.