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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]


Friend of APWU Urges
Colleagues On Capitol Hill
To Support ‘Employee Free Choice’

(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]


Thousands Rally
For ‘Employee Free Choice’ on Capitol Hill

(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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