Obama to Labor Leaders: Employee Free Choice Act Will Pass

March 3, 2009

On March 3, President Obama let CWA President Larry Cohen and other AFL-CIO leaders know that the Employee Free Choice Act is one of his top priorities. “We will pass the Employee Free Choice Act,” Obama told the leaders in a videotaped address.

CWA members have mobilized to tell their Representatives and Senators to preserve collective bargaining rights and the middle class by supporting the legislation, contributing over 100,000 cards and petition signatures to the Million Member Mobilization for Employee Free Choice.  This week, 16 CWA members are joining hundreds of other workers in Washington to share their stories about organizing fights, campaigns where they won recognition but failed to get a first contract, and positive majority sign up experiences.

You can read their stories and keep up with news of the Employee Free Choice Act as it moves through Congress at www.freechoiceact.org/cwaprofiles.