Act Now to Help Pass Public Safety Bargaining Bill

CWAers nationwide are working hard to push the U.S. Senate to act on a measure giving public safety officers collective bargaining rights. Hundreds of phone calls and handwritten letters have been sent to Senators, pressing for a vote on the bill.

“This is our last chance to see justice before the new Congress comes into power, and may be the only legislation that passes this year which will extend collective bargaining rights for American workers,” CWA Legislative Director Shane Larson said, commending activists in Virginia who have generated more than 400 phone calls and 200 handwritten letters to Democratic Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner.

The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (S. 1611), would provide public safety officers with collective bargaining rights. More than half of the 22,000 members of the National Coalition of Public Safety Officers-CWA live in the 25 states that deny bargaining rights for public safety workers.

The bill has bi-partisan support but has been held up by obstructionist tactics by some Republicans who want to delay and filibuster this measure and others.

There’s still time to make a difference. To reach Senate offices by phone, call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121.