Hill Battle Set For Employee free Choice

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

“Thanks to my union, I work with the most highly trained people in the industry and I know I will come home safe every night,” lineman apprentice Deborah Kelly (l) testified Tuesday in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which was later introduced in the U.S. House and Senate. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called it “a banner day for working Americans, a milestone on the road to rebuilding our nation’s middle class.” While Carol Pier of Human Rights Watch, one of the dozens of organizations backing the Employee Free Choice Act, said that “Congress should bring worker protections closer to international standards by passing the Employee Free Choice Act.” Meanwhile, over 100 labor leaders and staff gathered at the National Labor College for the 2-day AFL-CIO’s Turn Around America Northeast Regional Conference with a major focus on mobilizing support for the Free Choice Act, healthcare and rebuilding the economy for working and middle-class American families.
- photo courtesy AFL-CIO Blog