Two upcoming fights in California offer an opportunity to strengthen the coalition between the LGBT community and the labor movement: the upcoming marriage equality battle and the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
Marriage equality activists and the LGBT community must step up their support for EFCA over the next month and help win the support of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California). EFCA is the single most important piece of legislation for labor in decades, passage will make it easier for working people to organize into unions, and raise families – gay and straight alike – out of poverty and into the middle class. Labor has already shown its support for marriage equality during the last election, and we will need union members even more for our upcoming battle at the ballot box.
