MEDIA ADVISORY
Advisory for June 1st , 2009
Community Leaders Protest Chamber of Commerce “Campaign of Lies”
Local leaders in 15 cities call for local Chambers of Commerce to denounce the National Chamber’s campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act
When: June 1st through June 5th
( Washington, DC)—Across the country, local faith and community leaders will be confronting their local and regional Chambers of Commerce next week to expose their role in propagating misinformation round the Employee Free Choice Act.
Actions will be held in Richmond, Orlando, Tennessee, Dallas, Boston, Vermont, Philadelphia and Portland. Check our website at www.jwj.org for updated cities.
The National Chamber of Commerce has spent millions of dollars on television and print ads wrongly suggesting the Employee Free Choice Act will eliminate or prohibit a secret ballot election to form a union. Activists are urging their local Chambers to denounce these actions.
“It’s one thing to have a difference of opinion about how people should form a union, but lying about what the Employee Free Choice Act will do is another,” says [local leader]. “We expect more from business leaders, and we are here to give local business leaders a chance to show leadership on the issue.”
