Civil rights groups to push for 'card check' tomorrow on anniversary of MLK death

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/01/civil-rights-groups-to-push-for-card-check-on-anniversary-of-mlk-death/

Civil rights groups to push for 'card check' on anniversary of MLK death
@ 10:59 am by Michael O'Brien


Civil rights groups will use tomorrow's anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. to push for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, or "card check").

Civil rights groups will host a conference call Thursday at 12:00 p.m. featuring the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and its director, Wade Henderson, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous, and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Executive Director and CEO Melanie L. Campbell.

"Dr. King was assassinated helping to lead a struggle of sanitation workers to win the freedom to form a union and bargain collectively with their employer," said a LCCR release on the call. "The struggle of those workers continues today as Congress works to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to improve the lives of working men and women regardless of race, color or creed."

The call was promoted Wednesday in an email by the organized labor consortium group American Rights at Work.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. great!

Democrats who don't have much experience with unions often seem not to understand the close historical ties between organized labor and social justice movements. The popular perception is that labor unions are concerned with pocketbook issues to the exclusion of all else. That may be true of *some* unions, but not the majority of them.