I watched last night the Senate Republican leadership orchestrate a filibuster of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, preventing this critical bill from going to the floor of the Senate for an up-or-down vote. We must stop this Republican Filibuster!
Ledbetter will correct the recent Supreme Court decision that guts the ability of women workers to sue for wage discrimination. It also restores the rights of people of color, older and disabled workers to sue for wage discrimination.
I hope you are as outraged as we are with the current outcome. Let the Republican leadership of the Senate - Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. KY) and Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R. AZ) hear from you. Tell them that women workers will not stand for their assault on women's right to sue for wage discrimination.
As you know, the Supreme Court decision in the Lilly Ledbetter case reversed decades of precedent on wage discrimination cases, making it virtually impossible for women who are being suffering pay discrimination to go to court.
The House has already passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But now, we must break the filibuster and bring the bill to a floor vote this session before the 2008 election. We need only three votes to break the Senate filibuster. We must pressure the Republicans to allow this floor vote. If the bill gets to the floor, it will pass.
Take action today. Tell the Republican leadership to represent women workers not those business interests that choose to profit from discrimination. It's bad for women and bad for business.
For Equality,
Ellie Smeal
Eleanor Smeal
President
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