In a 5-4 the United States Supreme Court in Janus vs AFSME today took another step to rig our economy and our politics against working families and to further diminish the collective rights of working people. If those who pushed for this decision win, everyone who works for a living in America loses. If they win and the power of unions decline, we will all see the consequences in our paychecks and in the erosion of the social safety net that public sector unions have done so much to protect.
It is time to fight back, and you can tell your state legislators to sponsor the new bipartisan Madden-Mehaffie bill that will make it easier for public sector workers to create and join unions at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pa-legislators-stand-with-working-pennsylvanians-support-bipartisan-legislation-to-make-it-easier-for-workers-to-organize.
This bipartisan legislation, put forward by Representatives Maureen Madden (D-Monroe) and Thomas Mehaffie III (R-Dauphin), streamlines the union election process by allowing a majority of workers to form a union though a simple card check process. It also requires that certified unions be given a chance to explain the benefits of union membership.
Click here to tell your state legislators to co-sponsor the Madden-Mehaffie bill.
This is just the first of many proposals PBPC, KRC and the We The People campaign will endorse that will strengthen our unions and, in doing so, raise wages and stimulate economic growth throughout the commonwealth.
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