WASHINGTON (PAI)--The nation’s
unions stepped up their mass mobilization to pressure Congress to pass the
Employee Free Choice Act, working over the 2-week legislative recess to lobby
lawmakers for the pro-worker bill. And they unveiled a new round of
commercials to run nationwide for it, while enlisting African-American leaders
as key allies.
The object of the drive, which
ratcheted up as Congress left town April 4 for its Easter-Passover recess, was
to garner the needed 60 senators to overcome a planned GOP-led filibuster
against the measure, labor’s #1 legislative
priority.
The Employee Free Choice Act
would help level the playing field between workers and bosses in union
organizing and in bargaining first contracts. It would do so by writing into
law that workers -- not bosses -- get to choose the way their union is
recognized in the workplace: Through a verified majority sign-up of
authorization cards or through an NLRB-run
election.
clipped from: www.ilcaonline.org