John,
Our right to organize is under attack. It’s coming from the federal government. An executive order issued Thursday would strip the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.
If the White House gets away with this, no union contract in this country is safe. We have made tremendous sacrifices to win our good wages, our health care, our pensions, and the right to walk into work every day with our heads held high. We are not giving up without a fight. Our siblings in federal unions are front and center right now, and if we don’t fight for them, it will be our rights on the line next.
Can you call your congresspeople right now to tell them to stop the federal government from coming for union contracts?
Winning hard fights is what our union does. Five years ago—almost to the day—the COVID-19 pandemic swept through and left 98% of us out of work. We came back stronger than ever. We organized tens of thousands more workers into the union and won life-changing contracts in hotels, cafeterias, and casinos across the U.S. and Canada.
With this executive order, the White House is pulling straight from the boss’s playbook. It’s a larger-scale version of what they try to do all the time in our workplaces—attack our rights and try to claw back our gains. We can win this, but just like when we’re striking, delegating, and organizing, we all need to step up.
Take action and call your congresspeople to let them know we're not backing down from a fight.
This is a threat to the entire labor movement. Our union is mobilizing in solidarity with millions of workers across the country. Standing together is where our power comes from, and it’s how we’ll win this fight, too.
In Solidarity,
Gwen Mills
President, UNITE HERE
