Senate Candidates Stand Strong for Workers Despite Attack Ads

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/07/14/senate-candidates-stand-strong-for-workers-despite-attack-ads/

by James Parks, Jul 14, 2008

Candidates for Congress are reiterating their support for America’s workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain, despite the efforts of corporate front groups to mislead voters through attack ads.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x9pPiBtDLZQ

Workers have made passage of the Employee Free Choice Act a major issue in the 2008 elections, and Big Business interests are desperately trying to derail the momentum for the bill. In state after state, deep-pocket front groups, such as the Center for Union Facts and the Employee Freedom Action Committee, are running ads that assail candidates for their support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would ensure the freedom of workers to form unions without employer harassment.

These front groups are set up by sleaze propagandist Richard Berman, who has slammed Mothers Against Drunk Driving on behalf of the alcohol industry and encouraged pregnant women to eat tuna, despite concerns about high levels of mercury.

Jeff Merkley and Al Franken, Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate in Oregon and Minnesota, respectively, are among candidates making it clear that despite the propaganda attacks, they stand strong with America’s workers.

Merkley reiterated the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act to restoring the nation’s middle class (see video above):

Part of the shrinking middle class is the ability to frustrate the opportunity for workers to form unions. Since we have a dysfunctional system is a strategy for making it functional.

FULL story at link.