WIN leaders have been organizing since last November to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation at the federal level that would make it easier for workers to form unions and harder for employers to interfere with and punish union supporters. Worker leaders from WIN’s Interfaith Center for Worker Justice and Congregational Leaders organizing in their religious communities have collected over 1000 postcards calling on Congress to pass the legislation.

The changes promised in the Employee Free Choice Act are long overdue. For the last thirty years, workers in our country have shouldered the burden of falling wages and increased hours on the job. They’ve taken more responsibility for their health care and retirement security. And they’ve taken on more and more debt to make ends meet.

When workers come together to change these circumstances, they routinely face interference, intimidation, and, in some cases, firings.

All of this goes against our values and our history. America’s religious traditions almost unanimously support organizing in the workplace. And religious leaders have made a significant difference in taking actions that put these teachings into practice and lead to real changes for workers.

WIN leaders know that something different is possible. That’s why Worker leaders from the Interfaith Center have been holding workshops on the Act and getting postcards signed. That’s why Congregational leaders are asking people of faith to sign on to postcards as well.

Now WIN will launch a new initiative: a clergy sign on letter to call on Congress to take swift and effective action to make it easier for workers to organize and harder for employers to interfere without significant consequence.

The timing of all of this organizing couldn’t be better. Congress has already introduced the Employee Free Choice Act and will soon begin debating and voting on the proposal.

Want to get people in your congregation to sign cards? Want to ask your clergy leader to sign the letter? Call Lee at 612-332-2055!