Big
Business and their Chambers of
Commerce are demanding bailouts and
tax breaks while laying off workers
and paying big bonuses.
They've also
launched an anti-worker
propaganda campaign, spending
millions to fund front groups who
spread lies about the Employee Free
Choice Act, pretending to
care about worker privacy. No
surprise. These corporate
interests oppose everything from the
minimum wage to safety rules to
family leave and unemployment
compensation. Suddenly
corporations care about worker
privacy.Yeah, Right.
"Our
top priority is preventing the
passage of the Employee Free Choice
Act." - U.S. Chamber of
Commerce website
JwJ coalitions
across the country are mobilizing
at Chamber of Commerce branches June
3-4 to
highlight their multimillion dollar
campaign aganist the Employee Free
Choice Act. We are asking
local branches of the Chamber to
disassociate themselves from the
national US Chamber’s practices by
at least declaring neutrality on the
Employee Free Choice Act. For
those local branches that have
already been actively opposing the
legislation, we are protesting their
activity just as we are the US
Chamber’s.
To
defeat the greedy CEOs and
anti-union front groups fighting
this bill, we need to ratchet up our
grassroots efforts. Send the
letter below and ask Congress to
ignore the Chamber's lies and
pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
Send a letter
to the following decision maker(s):
Your Senators
Below is the
sample letter:
Subject: Don't
believe the Chamber's Lies about
Employee Free Choice Act
Dear [decision
maker name automatically inserted
here],
I am writing
to voice my continued support for
the Employee Free Choice Act, which
was reintroduced in Congress in
April. If you haven't become a
co-sponsor, I urge you to do so. And
if you're already a co-sponsor, I
hope you'll do everything you can to
encourage your colleagues to get on
board. The economic tailspin has put
the middle class, our country's
backbone, in peril. Rising health
care costs, home foreclosures,
stagnant wages, and shrinking
retirement plans are all taking a
huge toll.
The Chamber of Commerce has been
spending millions to spread lies
about this common sense reform, be
we know that to revive the economy
and rebuild the middle class in the
long term, we need to empower
workers to negotiate for better
wages and benefits.
The Employee Free Choice Act will do
just that - allowing workers to form
a union when a majority of them want
one. It will also stiffen penalties
on employers who harass, intimidate,
and fire workers for their support
of a union. The Employee Free Choice
Act is a critical piece of our
economic recovery. I'm confident
you'll continue to represent the
best interests of workers in your
district by supporting it.
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a
vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the
moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be
no compromise on basic principles."
Ayn Rand
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Big
Business and their Chambers of
Commerce are demanding bailouts and
tax breaks while laying off workers
and paying big bonuses.
