We All Deserve a Shot at the American Dream
Supporting the Employee Free Choice Act
Council P-3B Stewards Joe Stachowiak, Jeanette Connole, and Adele Clark, with Ryan Patten, One of the New Substitute MR Adult Services Instructors United in Our Union in 2007
Workers across the country deserve a fair chance to unite with their co-workers for better wages and benefits and a chance to create a better future for their kids. Too often, they don't have the opportunity because of outdated laws that favor large corporations and their billionaire CEOs over workers.
When some workers are denied a voice on the job it affects all of our abilities to negotiate. Our benefits, our wages, and our ability to deliver the services our communities need will be severely weakened.
There's a bill the US House of Representatives passed in 2007 -- but President Bush's allies in the Senate filibustered when he threatened to veto it -- that will make sure all workers get a fair shot at achieving the American Dream. Last year, SEIU began mobilizing over a million members to elect stronger pro-worker majorities in congress and a President who would sign the Employee Free Choice Act in 2009.
When congress reintroduced the Employee Free Choice Act in March, it immediately gained wide support far beyond the labor movement. Civil rights, religious, environmental, human rights, women’s and consumer groups are joining our call to restore workers' free choice to form unions!
Change to Win Free Choice leaflet for active members
Association for Retired Americans Free Choice leaflet for retirees
Win Heimer's letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant in response to commentary on the legislation
Mike O'Brien's Op-Ed published in the Hartford Business Journal
Blog entry on our efforts "Taking Back Labor Day from the Special Interests"
American Rights at Work Labor Day commercial on the Employee Free Choice Act
Sign the Employee Free Choice Act petition
American Rights at Work coalition
Employee Choice Act video featuring SEIU's Yale-New Haven Hospital organizing efforts
Change to Win Employee Free Choice Act fact sheets
