Dozens of Allies Join in Employee Free Choice Act Strategy Session

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http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/04/20/dozens-of-allies-join-in-employee-free-choice-act-strategy-session/

Dozens of Allies Join in Employee Free Choice Act Strategy Session

by Katrina Blomdahl, Apr 20, 2007

Katrina Blomdahl with the AFL-CIO Voice@Work campaign describes an event here yesterday in which community and union leaders discussed strategies for moving the Employee Free Choice Act through the U.S. Senate.

More than 70 community leaders representing 50 organizations met at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., yesterday to strategize on building a national grassroots campaign for a filibuster-proof passage of the Employee Free Choice Act in the Senate. The U.S. House passed the bill March 1.


Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington, D.C., bureau, was among union allies strategizing on the Employee Free Choice Act at the AFL-CIO.

The Employee Free Choice Act would level the playing field between workers and management, making it easier for workers to get ahead economically by uniting with their co-workers to bargain for better wages and benefits.

With 46 Senate co-sponsors backing the legislation, and a vote anticipated within the coming months, the energy in the room among the friends of labor—including academic, community, religious and civil rights leaders—was palpable.

Among organizations committed to moving the campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act through their grassroots networks: the NAACP, Sierra Club, Center for American Progress, American Rights at Work, American Friends Service Committee, Americans United for Change, Jobs with Justice, the Campaign for America’s Future and the National Council of Women’s Organizations.

FULL story at link.