Your Representative - Got It Exactly Right

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

America is a very different place from what it was a few months ago. Today, we have a congressional majority that actually gives a damn about working families.

That's why we elected a new Congress--to work for working families. Your U.S. representative has co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act--the most important legislation in 70 years for providing working men and women the opportunity to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions. Within the next two weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Employee Free Choice Act.

I want to ask you to take a minute right now to tell your representative that co-sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act is exactly the kind of work you sent him or her to Washington,
D.C., to do. Please send your message now. Use this link to send a thank you:

http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/

Working families have had plenty of reasons to be disappointed, even angry, about the majority in Congress in recent years. Taking away overtime pay. Passing lousy trade deals. Rewarding
companies for sending our jobs overseas. You name it.

But when members of Congress get it right, as your representative has on the Employee Free Choice Act, we've got to let them know. We need to say, "Thank you." We need to say we're
watching, that we'll be watching when the House votes on the Employee Free Choice Act and that we care--a great deal.

Please take a minute now to thank your representative. Use this link to send a thank-you message:

http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/

Union members know the best way for working families to get ahead is by bargaining collectively and gaining a union contract. Union members earn better wages, get better benefits
and work in better conditions. We also have a real voice on the job--and the strength of millions of brothers and sisters gives us a powerful voice in the community and the nation.

But the system for forming unions and bargaining for a better life is broken. It's been perverted by employers who use it to intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who just want
to work together with their colleagues for a better deal. A fair deal.

The Employee Free Choice Act will restore a level playing field for workers and employers. It will strengthen the penalties against companies that block workers' freedom to choose for
ourselves whether to form unions and bargain. It will bring in mediation and arbitration when employees and employers can't reach a contract. And it will allow working people to form
unions when a majority signs authorization cards--without the conflict, disruption and intimidation employers routinely inflict on us today.

Your representative needs to know that support for the Employee Free Choice Act means support for working families. Please take a moment now to thank your representative. Use this link to send a thank-you message:

http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/M7zDtod1TumC/

Thank you very much for being part of the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that will restore our freedom to bargain for a better life, rebuild America's middle class,
strengthen our unions and give working families the opportunity to prosper.

In solidarity,

John J. Sweeney
AFL-CIO President
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