FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, July 17, 2009

CONTACT: Greg Denier
Noreen Nielsen
202-721-0660

WASHINGTON, DC -- Change to Win executive director Chris Chafe issued the following statement in response to today's New York Times piece on the Employee Free Choice Act. 

"The freedom to choose to join a union is essential to recovering our nation's economy, rebuilding the middle class and renewing the American Dream for all of America's workers. Majority sign-up remains one of the simplest and most effective ways to give workers a voice on the job and our support for it is undiminished. While the Employee Free Choice Act continues to work its way through the many steps of our legislative process to iron out details, we remain optimistic that there will be strong labor law reform this year that ensures workers have a fair path to choose to form a union free of intimidation and harassment."

** Note: Media representatives interested in scheduling an interview with Change to Win leaders should contact Noreen Nielsen at Noreen.nielsen@changetowin.org.**

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About Change to Win
Change to Win is a 5.5-million member partnership of five unions founded in 2005 to represent workers in the industries and occupations of the 21st century economy. Change to Win is committed to restoring the American Dream for a new generation of workers – wages that can support a family, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and the opportunity for the future. The affiliated unions are: Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union of North America, and United Farm Workers of America.