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A growing number of organizations inside and out of the labor
movement care about workers' rights and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Learn more about them here:
Voices for Change
American Rights at Work is committed to amplifying the new
and diverse voices of those who care about workers’ rights and the
Employee Free Choice Act. You may just be surprised by who is speaking up…
"This idea of workers fighting for their rights, for the most basic
things, the right to exist, is something we have to support."
, Actor
"When you say you're going to form a union, you're talking about
giving workers self-respect. . . . The ideas of unions, self-respect,
and economic stability are all related."
, Writer and Radio Personality
"Workers' rights are so vital to what the promise of what this
country is. . . . If you work, you should be able to take care of your
family, feed your family, you should be able to get health care."
, Actor
"Hotel workers by the airport make 20 percent less wages than hotel
workers around the rest of Los Angeles. We're here to express our
solidarity with them, to help them unionize and to help them close the
gap between their sub-poverty wages and the millions and millions of
dollars the people who own these hotels make."
, Musician
"How employers manage health and safety in the workplace or how
labor rights are respected are issues important for employees and
investors alike."
, Senior Vice President, Walden Asset Management
"The CWA-Cingular neutrality agreement strengthens our current
partnership-based relationship. We share mutual goals and values which
will better enable us to continue to operate successfully in a very
competitive environment."
, Vice President of Human Resources, Cingular Wireless
"Companies that treat their workers as assets to be developed do
better over the long term than companies that treat their workers as
costs to be cut. Consumers, investors, and CEOs should take note."
, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
"Strip unions of their power to safeguard workers and you strip them of their power to protect all of us."
- , Executive Director, Sierra Club
"Workers’ rights to join a union and bargain collectively are basic
human rights. Yet employers routinely retaliate against workers by
firing them, threatening to close their worksites and by otherwise
intimidating them. These ongoing workplace human rights violations are
the major reasons why so many workers are denied good jobs, good wages
and good healthcare benefits."
, Chairman of the Board of Directors, NAACP
"It is clear that there is a very strong association between the extent of unionization in a country and how democratic it is."
, Professor, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
"The right of all workers to negotiate their conditions of
employment is not only a statutory right in the United States, it is
also a fundamental human right."
, Steering Committee Chair, Society for the Promotion of Human Rights in Employment
"Current labor law fails to protect union activists from management
retaliation and does not guarantee orderly and fair elections."
, Morgan State University
"Judaism has recognized the right of workers to organize for over
2,000 years. Workers have a right to protect themselves from dangerous
and unfair working conditions. Any attempt to prevent them from doing
this is unethical."
, Director, Torah of Money, The Shefa Fund
"Federal law has long prohibited employment discrimination on
grounds of union activity. Yet many business executives feel no shame
in admitting that they engage in such discrimination… employment
discrimination on the basis of union activity is just as unethical as
discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, or national origin."
, Adjunct Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan
"We don't have an adversarial relationship with our unions at all.
We look at it as a contributing factor to productivity and a better
product."
, Sr. Vice President Corporate Relations, Jackson and Perkins
"At McAninch, working with unions is an advantage, not an obstacle. We have high standards and so do they."
, CEO and Chairman, McAninch Corporation
"Organized labor may surprise everyone by advocating for policies
dear to the majority of workers, such as flex-time, pension and benefit
reforms, and retirement solvency, and thus growing anew. Meanwhile,
the external fight to protect against abusive employers must and will
continue."
, Director of International Trade and Economics, Heritage Foundation
"We choose to be a union contractor so we are able to rely on a
well-trained, competent… work force that can construct any facility in
a safe, economical and timely way."
, President, Glenroy Construction Company, Inc.
"As a business owner I have a fiduciary obligation to our
investors. But, I also feel an obligation to the workers who produce
our high quality products; that they have the right to organize and to
an agreement that will give them a fair and descent wage for the work
that they do."
, Founder and Chairman, GESD Capital Partners
"We respect workers rights to form and join organizations of their choice and to bargain collectively."
, President and CEO, Levi Strauss & Company
"A strong partnership with our unions - including union leadership
and individual members - is important to me as a CEO and to all the
leaders at AEP. We see a strong labor-management relationship as key
to our past and future success."
, President and CEO, American Electric Power
"In the globalized economy, most power sits within corporations,
governments, and international trade organizations. Collective
bargaining allows workers also to be heard."
, Executive Director, Center for Reflection, Education and Action
"I always find it strange that our government seems to support the
idea of free labor markets in other countries (Poland, Japan, etc.)
while systematically helping to undermine workers in this country
trying to build their unions."
, Assistant Vice President, American Income Life Insurance Company
"Lear practices neutrality and card-check with respect to the union
as a matter of policy for over 10 years. This policy has allowed
voluntary choice without causing disruptive behavior in our plants."
, Vice President, Employee Relations, Lear Corporation
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