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Last Updated 10/09/06

An  Excerpt from a Letter from Religious Leaders to the NLRB

Call on your Congressmen to Restore Workers' Rights

Our religious traditions support workers’ right to organize and bargain collectively.  We support proposals that expand coverage and access to collective bargaining rather than limit it. We believe that all persons are created in the image of God and as such their work unites them with others and should be endowed with dignity, equality and justice.

In the workplace, collective bargaining is the most effective process for workers to express this dimension of their humanity. These (Kentucky River) cases seek to broaden the definition of who is a supervisor and thus to limit those who are eligible to choose union representation and be covered by collective bargaining agreements. This would be a dramatic limitation of coverage and a terrible restriction of the rights of working men and women.

Millions of workers are at risk of losing the protections offered by collective bargaining agreements.