The time to support workers is now! FRESC is collaborating with labor, faith, nonprofit and community partners in Colorado to promote an important piece of federal legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act. This has the common goal of fair wages and working conditions for all workers, especially low-wage workers, women, and people of color. FRESC and its Interfaith Worker Justice Committee have focused primarily on organizing the faith community to help lift workers out of poverty and into the middle class.

FRESC created a presentation which educates the religious community about the Employee Free Choice Act from a faith perspective (click here to download).  FRESC and the Interfaith Worker Justice Committee have met with Colorado’s U.S. Senators and Representatives in Denver and in Washington D.C. this year.  Over 100 of Colorado’s faith leaders signed onto a letter to Colorado’s Congressional delegation supporting the Employee Free Choice Act.

Click here to read the letter. And to sign on, email Daniel Klawitter, Religious Outreach Organizer.

Watch a video of President Barack Obama speak on the Employee Free Choice Act.

Click here to watch FRESC's executive director, Carment Rhodes, debate the Employee Free Choice Act on NBC 9News' Your Show.

Click here to Read former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich's commentary on the Employee Free Choice act published in the Los Angeles Times.