Restoring the Right to Form a Union: Organizing Summit 2006
The AFL-CIO union movement’s Voice@Work campaign to restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively celebrated International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, with a two-day AFL-CIO Organizing Summit, Dec. 8-9, 2006.
In speeches, workshops and panels, participants from dozens of unions across the country discussed how best to organize strategically and built on the tremendous successes of the past year’s organizing efforts among AFL-CIO affiliates by sharing best practices.
Unfortunately in the United States, when workers try to form unions, employers routinely respond with campaigns of intimidation, coercion, misinformation—and even by firing their employees. Employees suffer such retaliation even though federal law theoretically protects workers’ freedom to form a union. But for many of America’s workers, the law is no help as they struggle to maintain their basic workplace right: the freedom to join a union.
The Organizing Summit launched the union movement's renewed effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which will enable workers to form unions without the employer harassment they now endure.
International Human Rights Day is the anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes as a basic human right the freedom of all workers to form unions and bargain together.
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