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Friend,
All across the U.S., companies employ a wide range of legal and illegal tactics to suppress the rights of their workers to form unions and collectively bargain with their employers.
The challenges of unionizing are made clear in this EPI video that features Amy Waters, RN, CPN, at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Click here to watch the short video where Amy details her and her fellow nurses’ story of a hard-fought, though ultimately successful, union drive in the South.
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The nurses at Mission aren’t the only ones facing collective-bargaining roadblocks.
Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are a recent example. They will be voting through March 29 on whether to form a union, but the vote comes after a series of harsh efforts by Amazon to derail the election, including anti-union signs in bathroom stalls, unwarranted disciplinary actions against employees, and attempts to block mail-in voting, according to press reports.
Current labor law—which is supposed to protect the right of workers in the private sector to organize—actually makes it very difficult for workers to win union representation.
The PRO Act would change that.
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which was introduced this month in Congress, would strengthen union organizing and collective bargaining so workers can receive the fair pay and benefits they deserve.
Right now, corporate interests and conservative forces are teaming up to undermine our efforts. Americans for Prosperity—founded by David and Charles Koch—is running a misinformation campaign, attacking the PRO Act.
EPI is countering this by providing reliable analysis on how the PRO Act will provide the transformational economic change working people need and deserve. Passing the PRO Act and fundamental reform of labor law will restore workers’ rights to a union and collective bargaining.
Why is this so critical? As union membership declines, income inequality increases. Just look at this new EPI infographic about how union membership can impact wages.:
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Friend, donate to EPI today to advance the PRO Act through Congress and counter the right-wing attacks on working people.
Watch for opportunities in the coming days to fight for stronger labor rights as EPI organizes our allies across the country in support of the PRO Act.
Thank you,
Eve Tahmincioglu
Director of Communications, Economic Policy Institute
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