Right now, the Senate is considering a bill that would give back the rights that America's workers are too often denied.
The Employee Free Choice Act would strengthen workers' rights to form unions to negotiate for better wages, health care, and working conditions.
The Employee Free Choice Act is the most important workers' rights legislation to come along in decades. If passed, the bipartisan legislation would hold anti-union employers accountable, guarantee workers a fair, simple, direct method for organizing, and force employers to stop dragging out contract negotiations.
Workers shouldn't have to fight so hard to form unions. With your help, we can win this battle - in Congress and in the workplace.
Dear [Senator],
I am encouraged by the progress the new Congress has made so far in helping fix the problems facing workers in this country. Working families are still looking for our leaders in Washington to give them back hope and opportunity.
That's why I'm writing to you to ask for you to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act in the 110th Congress.
Employers routinely harass, coerce, intimidate, and even fire workers when they try to exercise their legal rights to form unions. As the law currently stands, union elections are prone to delay and often favor employers in their fights against workers' unions.
This legislation would fix the broken process through which workers form unions by imposing stiffer penalties against employers that violate labor law, and would set up a process for newly-organized workers to negotiate a first contract in a timely manner. Under the Employee Free Choice Act, workers could opt to follow the "majority sign-up" method of organizing, where workers choose union representation through a process in which a majority signs cards indicating their support.
Workers deserve a free choice and a fair chance to form a union if they want to - without risking their livelihood to do so. It's time to give working families the freedoms and protections they deserve.
[Your comment here]
If you haven't yet already, please endorse the Employee Free Choice Act and sign on as a co-sponsor today.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]
