General Info

The Central Arkansas Labor Council is a chartered body of the AFL-CIO, bringing together local unions from every trade, occupation, public and private sectors of the Arkansas economy. We represent many professions. We are men and women of every race, creed, and land.The mission of the Central Arkansas Labor Council is to champion the rights of working men and women in Arkansas. Through the solidarity of our members, we work for working families to ensure the civil rights, fair wages, safe working conditions, political voice, respect and dignity that their labor should afford them.Thanks in large part to the efforts of union volunteers around the country, working families won a strong victory on Nov. 4, sending Barack Obama to the White House and electing a stronger pro-worker majority of senators and representatives.However, winning an election isn't the end of the fight. Now, our elected leaders need to tackle the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. They have to keep their promises to the people who voted for them,and we have to give them the support they need to make the tough choices. We need an economic recovery package that will turn around this broken economy for working families with good jobs, green jobs, re-regulation of our financial system and health care that works for all of us. But no matter what else we do, it won't result in real shared prosperity unless we restore workers' freedom to form unions so they can bargain for a better life with better wages and benefits. That's what this proposed legislation, the Employee Free Choice Act, will do. The Employee Free Choice Act will: