LGBT Groups Unite to Support Employee Free Choice Act

http://prideatwork.org/page.php?id=605

A broad coalition of national lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender organizations is gearing up to push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would remove obstacles for workers who want union representation.

The LGBT organizations supporting the bill include some of the community’s largest and most influential. They are: the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Pride at Work, AFL-CIO, National Stonewall Democrats, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, and, most recently, the Human Rights Campaign.

The bill, which is cosponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative George Miller, is high on the priority list of labor and its progressive allies for the incoming Obama administration. It passed the House of Representatives by a wide margin in 2007, but was blocked by a right-wing filibuster in the Senate.

“America’s workers, who are already suffering badly from growing income inequality and declining benefits, badly need legislation that will ensure their right to organize by protecting them from bullying and intimidation by unscrupulous employers,” said Jeremy Bishop, Executive Director of Pride at Work. “Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is vital if we are to rebuild middle-class living standards for working people in this country, and LGBT labor is committed to making that happen.”

“The Task Force Action Fund strongly supports the Employee Free Choice Act. With our shared goals of equality and fairness, we stand with our allies in the labor community in support of workers’ rights, as part of the larger progressive agenda,” says Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund. “But our support for EFCA is not just based on our long history and alliance with the labor community. It is also about the rights of LGBT workers who so desperately need the protections that a union can provide. It is currently legal to fire someone in 30 states based on sexual orientation and 38 states based on gender identity; a union contract can provide critical job security for LGBT workers.”

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were interested only in Rick Warren.:sarcasm:

As a union member, and as LGBT, I fully support the Employee Free Choice Act.

Many of those opposed to marriage equality, are also opposed to this bill. Unmask them!

Omaha Steve, I've long admired your work!

It's about time something like this comes along so that workers truly have a real choice on this issue. Especially I would LOVE to see Wal-Mart forced to do the right thing by requiring them to hold honest unionization votes. Ditto for all the other dipshit companies who routinely find ways to make sure their workers never get a union.