Make it easier to join a union – because civil rights and workers’ rights go together.
Tell your representatives to support the Employee Free Choice Act to make it easier for workers to join a union.
Dear Curmilus,
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, he was helping sanitation workers win the freedom to form a union and bargain collectively with their employer. The struggle of those workers continues today as Congress works to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to improve the lives of working men and women regardless of race, color or creed.
You’ve probably heard about the fight over the Employee Free Choice Act. The bill would make it much easier for American workers to join unions – and make it harder for bosses to put pressure on their employees to oppose a union.
As someone who gained invaluable organizing experience working with unions to protect and promote civil rights, I’m writing to ask you to join me in supporting the Employee Free Choice Act – and to tell your representatives to vote for it.
At the NAACP, our fight is a fight not just to make sure everyone has a job, but to make sure everyone has access to a good job. And unions have been one of the best ways to ensure that African Americans and all Americans have good jobs, with good pay and benefits and safe working conditions. In fact, the struggle for civil rights and the struggle for workers’ rights have always been linked together in this country.
As you know, working people’s income has flat-lined – while the wealthy have gotten ever richer. Putting more money in the pockets of working people is good for the entire country – it’s our own stimulus bill.
It’s a fact. Union workers make more money than non-union workers in the same industry, have better health care, and have more ability to bargain with their bosses.
Please, tell your representatives to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Todd Jealous
President and CEO
NAACP
P.S. By empowering workers to join together to have a strong and united voice in their workplaces and throughout our society, the Employee Free Choice Act will bring new energy to every effort to eradicate discrimination in all its forms. E-mail your representatives today!
©2009 NAACP, 4805 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215
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