Workers To Congress: Our Most Basic Liberties Must Be Restored

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/5251

Workers To Congress: Our Most Basic Liberties Must Be Restored

By Doug Cunningham

Workers told Congress Thursday how they've been harassed, intimidated and fired for just trying to use their legal rights to form unions. Smithfield worker Keith Ludlum was one of the workers testifying in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would end employer intimidation by letting workers form unions when a majority sign cards.

: "In 1994 Smithfield illegally targeted and fired me for my union activities. The supervisors and the deputy sheriff marched me out of the plant in front of all the other employees as an example to intimidate the others."

Virginia Cingular Wireless worker Teresa Joyce told Congress labor law reform is urgently needed.

: "There's something terribly wrong with our laws and with our country when workers are systematically harassed, threatened and even fired from their jobs - stripped of their very livelihood - just for the simple act of exercising their right to form a union to improve their lives. As a country that prides itself on our rights and our freedoms, we must take immediate action to restore workers' most basic liberties at the workplace."

[oldtimecanuk]

1. I so agree with the entire content of the above... and we all know.

where this crap is coming from... ie: The usual Bush Administration that can only see Big Business and greed.... My wonder is, when will the entire US population wake up and hit the streets in protest? That has to be just around the road, however with MSM basically non existent one must take pause with that.

ww

[williesgirl]

2. K&R