Linda Ortiz, small business owner and
recipient of the "Small Business of the Decade" award from the Pueblo, CO Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
King Salim Khalfani, Virginia State Conference NAACP Executive Director
"They've had the game played their way for so long the Fat Cats don't know the meaning of fair anymore. Let's level the playing field. The Employee Free Choice Act is a step in the right direction." - Mike Farrell, Actor
"Without a right to organize we lose. We have to have some protection for workers where workers can organize and to level the playing field for the workers...It is important that we all have a right to organize and negotiate with strength. It is imperative that this legislation is passed, particularly here in Virginia" - King Salim Khalfani, Executive Director for the State Conference of the Virginia NAACP
"I support passage of the Employee Free Choice Act because I have witnessed Vermont workers make good faith organizing efforts and watched as their employers use divisive tactics to take away their right to collective bargaining. The net result is the loss of a sense of community that unions help to bring about. I've seen employers intimate and harass their employees in ways that are not worthy of our democracy. This legislation is a basic effort to achieve a measure of fairness which is lacking in our country today." - Rabbi Joshua Chasen
"Unionization helps close the pay gap for women, and helps provide family-supporting jobs with decent wages, family health care and basic labor standards like paid sick days for working women and men alike. The Employee Free Choice Act will help end the illegal intimidation and harassment of workers that stifles their ability to form unions and improve their and their families' lives." - Linda Meric, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women
For over three decades, union membership in the U.S. has declined. This is one important reason why our workers are not faring well. Wages are falling or stagnant, millions lack health insurance and pensions, injury rates are too high, and workers lack input in decision-making processes. Meanwhile, corporate profits sky-rocketed, greed became a virtue, and corporate-driven ideology eroded regulatory safeguards. The rich got richer while the poor and middle class got what was left over. This skewed playing field -- which enabled the housing and credit bubbles -- is not the foundation for a sound economy. Now, more than ever, workers need unions and over 50 million workers say they would like to join one. But current law makes this nearly impossible. The right of workers to form or join a union was proclaimed in the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. But, today, millions of workers in the U.S. do not enjoy this internationally-recognized human right. It is time for this to change. The Employee Free Choice Act would begin to level the playing field and protect workers’ rights to form a union, should they chose to do so. - Edith Rasell, Ph.D., United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries
"They've had the game played their way for so long the Fat Cats don't know the meaning of fair anymore. Let's level the playing field. The Employee Free Choice Act is a step in the right direction." - Mike Farrell, Actor 
"Unionization helps close the pay gap for women, and helps provide family-supporting jobs with decent wages, family health care and basic labor standards like paid sick days for working women and men alike. The Employee Free Choice Act will help end the illegal intimidation and harassment of workers that stifles their ability to form unions and improve their and their families' lives." - Linda Meric, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women 
For over three decades, union membership in the 