Senate Bill 202 is about to strip Missouri workers from their collective bargaining rights. Like its predecessor bills in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana, it will affect the jobs of social workers, teachers, firefighters, nurses, and other public servants across the state, and leave them with no voice when it comes to their own job conditions. It’s already passed in the Senate and is on its way to the House, where it could alter our lives forever. I don’t know about you, but about half of my family and friends would be impacted by this bill—and it would dismantle the very rights workers have struggled to attain for years in not just Missouri, but America itself.
In the United States, we’re often fond of saying that our soldiers in the past have not died for nothing, and that we do them a disservice when we don’t appreciate the freedoms they fought for. Well, the same goes for the early unions in our history, who fought with sweat and blood to obtain the rights we have today. How dare we let this happen to such hard-won rights.
Please call your Missouri representative today and demand that SB202 be taken off the table. You can call the Capitol switchboard at 1-888-907-9711.
