Momentum for the Employee Free Choice Act continues to grow. The latest organization to sign on in support of the bill is the National Baptist Convention of America (NBCA), one of the nation’s largest African American religious groups with 3 million members.
The Rev. Samuel Tolbert, general secretary of the NBCA, writes in a letter to the AFL-CIO:
The (NBCA) will join with you in raising the level of awareness of our leadership and our membership of the importance of workers across the spectrum having the right to form and join a union if they so choose.
I continue to believe that workers have a right to have a voice in the process that determines their wages, hours and conditions of employment.
The union movement is supporting the Employee Free Choice Act because it gives working people the freedom to make their own decision about whether and how to form a union. Working people are struggling to make ends meet in today’s economic crisis. The Employee Free Choice Act will allow more people to bargain for better wages and working conditions, helping to rebuild our middle class and create an economy that works for all.
Click here to check out which organizations support the Employee Free Choice Act and here to learn more about the legislation.
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