Employee Free Choice: Make It the Law!

June 19, 2008

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IUE-CWA is spearheading the challenge to have locals pledge to gather cards from 15 percent of members - including, hopefully, many with photos - to demonstrate to Congress that union members are behind the Employee Free Choice Act.

Local 701 signs members up in support of Employee Free Choice Act during their annual picnic.

IUE-CWA President Jim Clark has been visiting with locals in key battleground states to educate them on the urgent need to change the law to allow workers to have a free choice to join a union.

Already locals covering more than 66 percent of the membership have signed the pledge. Clark is asking for full participation in the effort.

"IUE-CWA has been hit hard by the obstacles to organizing that the Employee Free Choice Act would fix," said Clark. "We need to do our part."

Some 60 million workers have said they would join a union if they could do so without experiencing intimidation, indoctrination or misinformation.

Instead the reality is that instead of being able to make their own choice about union representation, each year more than 20,000 workers are illegally fired or discriminated against for exercising attempting to organize.

“We have to fight to stop workers from being stripped of the basic freedom to join a union,” said Clark. “If we don’t win this fight, our own contracts, our own wages and benefits, will continue to deteriorate. Our jobs are at stake in this fight.”

To sign the pledge, go to: http://www.cwa-union.org/efca/pledgeyourlocal/

Locals listed below have already signed:

Local 75 FW, Maryland
Local 76B, New York
Local 101, Pennsylvania
Local 106, New Jersey
Local 130, Maryland
Local 134, New Jersey
Local 154, Massachusetts
Local 161, Virginia
Local 162, Virginia
Local 174, Virginia
Local 181, North Carolina
Local 201, Massachusetts
Local 251, Massachusetts
Local 255, Massachusetts
Local 274, Massachusetts
Local 282 FW, Tennessee
Local 298, Massachusetts
Local 301, New York
Local 313, New York
Local 319, New York
Local 320, New York
Local 321, New York
Local 329, Pennsylvania
Local 359, New York
Local 381, New York
Local 384, New York
Local 408, New York
Local 415, Michigan
Local 427, New Jersey
Local 436A FW, Michigan
Local 440, New Jersey
Local 455, New Jersey
Local 467, New Jersey
Local 475, New York
Local 502, Pennsylvania
Local 509, New York
Local 555, Michigan
Local 612, Pennsylvania
Local 623, Pennsylvania
Local 627, West Virginia
Local 640, Pennsylvania
Local 643, Pennsylvania
Local 647, Virginia
Local 648, Pennsylvania
Local 651, Pennsylvania
Local 697, Kentucky
Local 698, Mississippi
Local 701, Kentucky
Local 705, Ohio
Local 707, Ohio
Local 710, Ohio
Local 711, Alabama
Locla 715, Ohio
Local 716, Ohio
Local 717, Ohio
Local 718, Mississippi
Local 719, Ohio
Local 725, Ohio
Local 727, Ohio
Local 734, Ohio
Local 736, Florida
Local 742, Ohio
Local 745, Ohio
Local 755, Ohio
Local 761, Kentucky
Local 765, Ohio
Local 766, Kentucky
Local 770, Mississippi
Local 774, Ohio
Local 775, Ohio
Local 780, Texas
Local 782, Texas
Local 783, Alabama
Local 792, Mississippi
Local 798, Ohio
Local 799, Mississippi
Local 800 FW, Wisconsin
Local 801 FW, Wisconsin
Local 802, Indiana
Local 808, Indiana
Local 809, Indiana
Local 821, Missouri
Local 823, Missouri
Local 846, Wisconsin
Local 848, Indiana
Local 863, Indiana
Local 888, Indiana
Local 901, Indiana
Local 911, Indiana
Local 913, Indiana
Local 924, Indiana
Local 963, Indiana
Local 981, Michigan
Local 998, Indiana
Local 999, Indiana
Local 1004, Kansas
Local 1017, Oklahoma
Local 1078, Illinois
Local 1081, Illinois
Local 1101, Wisconsin
Local 1116, Missouri
Local 1140, Minnesota
Local 14430, Illinois
Local 22485, New York