The AFL-CIO Blog tells the story of Tim Walz at the union rally in Rochester in ‘Employee Free Choice Act Sticks to Values We Care About’:
In Rochester, Minn., Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), one of the 233 co-sponsors of the Employee Free Choice Act, rallied with union members outside the local Holiday Inn Express yesterday, where 18 workers, all union supporters, were fired three days before last Christmas when a new owner took over the hotel.
The workers, who say they were fired because of their union activity, have filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the hotel’s owners. Their firings, Walz says, are part of a larger problem—employers do not respect workers’ freedom to form a union and to have dignity on the job.
Despite what Big Business interests say, Walz says the Employee Free Choice Act is not anti-business.
It is not anti-business or pro-business. This is simply sticking to those values that we care about: equal pay for equal work, the ability to organize and ask for safe working conditions, for pensions and health care, there’s plenty of money for everyone on this.
In Rochester and more than 100 other cities across the nation, workers met with members of Congress and community leaders to push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800). At news conferences, worker roundtables, rallies and other gatherings across the country, workers and union and community leaders are connecting with more than 130 members of Congress—thanking those who support the Employee
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