http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/efca_senatecard_7states?rk=e11%5fG811lLHREMomentum is building in the Senate for the Employee Free Choice Act -- legislation that would ensure workers have a free choice and a fair chance to form a union.
We have an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen workers' rights. But your Senator has yet to show support for this critical bill.
So we're going to flood your Senator's offices with our new "online card." Help us out by signing the card and telling your Senator to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act today!
Full Petition Text:
I am encouraged by the progress the new Congress has made so far in helping fix the problems facing workers in this country. Working families are still looking for our leaders in Washington to give them back hope and opportunity.
That's why I'm writing to you to ask for you to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041).
Employers routinely harass, coerce, intimidate, and even fire workers when they try to exercise their legal rights to form unions. As the law currently stands, union elections are prone to delay and often favor employers in their fights against workers' unions.
This legislation would fix the broken process through which workers form unions by imposing stiffer penalties against employers that violate labor law, and would set up a process for newly-organized workers to negotiate a first contract in a timely manner. Under the Employee Free Choice Act, workers could opt to follow the "majority sign-up" method of organizing, where workers choose union representation through a process in which a majority signs cards indicating their support.
Workers deserve a free choice and a fair chance to form a union if they want to - without risking their livelihood to do so. It's time to give working families the freedoms and protections they deserve.
Please endorse the Employee Free Choice Act and sign on as a co-sponsor today.
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Just click the link to sign: http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/efca_senatecard_7states?rk=e11%5fG811lLHRE