Going from TV president to real-life activist, “The West Wing” actor Martin Sheen is taking to the airwaves in a new radio ad in support of the Employee Free Choice Act and workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain.
Playing in four states, the ad is a project of Catholics for Working Families, one of the many faith groups around the nation supporting the Employee Free Choice Act.
In the ad, Sheen—a Catholic and a longtime union member—talks about the decline in union membership in the decades since he first joined a union, and how that’s undermined workers’ power in the economy:
As CEOs receive massive salaries and bonuses, working families continue to struggle. A bill in Congress called the Employee Free Choice Act will provide a fair and democratic process for workers to form unions, and that will help build a more just economy—an economy that promotes families, an economy that values human life and serves everyone, not just the people at the top.
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you can listen to the Raido spot here
http://www.catholicsforworkingfamilies.org/node/117‘The West Wing’ Cast Joins Workers to Support Employee Free Choice
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/03/31/the-west-wing-cast-joins-workers-to-support-employee-free-choice/As part of the union movement’s “Faces of the Employee Free Choice Act” campaign, workers like Dan Luevano and Asela Espiritu were joined by members of the cast of “The West Wing” in a rally in support of the Employee Free Choice Act on Capitol Hill this morning. Martin Sheen, who played fictional U.S. President Jed Bartlett in the long-running show, came to Washington along with actors Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff.
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