TAKE ACTION: Support a stronger rural economy.
Support the Employee Free Choice Act.

Higher wages are good for farming, good for rural communities, and good for the nation’s economy. That’s because we need good wages to rescue the middle class.

Think about the way large-scale corporate farms are pushing family-sized farms into the economic ditch and bringing rural economies along with them. Would corporate farms have the same cost advantage if they paid union-scale wages to everyone who worked for them?

Think about all the people who work in rural processing plants and other businesses that support farming. Are the communities they work in better off with residents who are paid middle-class wages, or with people struggling to make it on rock bottom wages?

Think about farmers who want fair prices for what they sell. Who is more likely to be able to pay those prices – middle class consumers or those living on the edge?

The Employee Free Choice Act will make it easier for workers – both rural and urban – to join labor unions. And bargain for higher wages and benefits. And rebuild the middle class.

Corporations have launched an all-out effort to mislead, misinform and defeat this important legislation. It’s time our representatives heard from the rural communities and supporters they represent. Send the letter below and ask Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.