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APWU
Locals Go to Bat
For Employee Free Choice Act
(05/27/09) APWU members across the country are stepping up to the
plate to help pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would help
level the playing field for workers who want to form unions. Answering
a call to help finance a national media campaign, APWU locals have raised
more than $22,000 so far for the AFL-CIO’s Turn Around America
Fund. The fund is dedicated to building public support for EFCA. [read
more]
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Slide Show Boosts Labor’s Top Priority
Pass
the Employee Free Choice Act
(05/01/09) Workers across the country have been sending a powerful message to their senators and representatives: Support the Employee Free Choice Act. And a new APWU slide show is helping to spread the word. Suitable for use at union meetings and other events, the slide show explains what the bill would do; how it would benefit postal workers, and how it would strengthen the middle class. [read more]
Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
(04/23/09) Working families are finding it harder to make
ends meet. Wages just aren’t keeping up with the cost of living,
and job security, health coverage, and the prospects of a secure
retirement are vanishing. Workers are hurting, and the entire economy
is showing the effects... The best opportunity we have to
start rebuilding this country is to rebuild the middle class,
which we can do by giving workers the power to bargain for
a better life. [read
more]
APWU
Urges Fundraising
For ‘Workers’ Best Protection’
(03/24/09) What’s the best shield for a worker when the
economy is crumbling? A union card. And what’s the best leverage
for America’s workers when the economy is shambles? A larger, stronger
union movement. With those simple truths in mind, the APWU is asking
locals and state organizations to raise funds to help win passage of
the Employee Free Choice Act. [read
more]
‘Employee
Free Choice’ Legislation
Introduced in Senate, House
(03/10/09) Legislation that would give workers greater freedom
to choose to form unions and bargain for a better workplace was introduced
in the Senate and the House on March 10. The legislation is the labor
movement’s top priority in the 111th Congress. It would make
it easier for workers to choose to become union members, and would
stiffen penalties for employers who retaliate against employees who
try to gain a voice in the workplace. President Obama has pledged to
sign it into law.
[read more]
(02/12/09) Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) is urging Members of Congress to support every employee’s right to form a union.“I believe every person who is willing to work hard deserves a place in the middle class and a chance at the American dream,” Murphy wrote in a Feb. 10 Dear Colleague letter. “That is why we must pass the Employee Free Choice Act.” [read more]
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(02/05/09) APWU officers and staff joined thousands of other union activists at a rally on Capitol Hill Feb. 4, to encourage Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would give American workers greater freedom to form unions. They brought along hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions from workers around the country who are fighting to pass the legislation. [read more]
Unifying the Middle Class
Through 'Free Choice'
(01/01/09) Electing Barack Obama as the next president of the United
States of America was proof that ordinary Americans realized
they had been left behind by out-of-touch legislators. Obama
was elected with the mandate to rebuild the middle class, and
that is why passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is
so important. Not only would the law help increase union membership
across the country, it would help America revitalize its sagging
economy by strengthening the middle class. [read
more]
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