Labor & Employment Law

Join a Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon

By Mike Hall

We?ve got a long Labor Day weekend in front of us and that means plenty of time to join American Rights at Work?s first-ever Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon along with celebrity union members?including actors, recording artists, Broadway performers, baseball players and broadcasters.

American Rights at Work?s Liz Cattaneo says the tweet-a-thon is a chance to ?send a positive message about the value of unions.?

To showcase the strength, solidarity, diversity of our unions, we’re asking celebrities?along with anyone else who wants to show their union pride?to join us by sending a tweet with the hash tag #unionmember during Labor Day weekend. It’s a great opportunity to have well-known public figures frame unions in a positive light through a fun and influential medium.

You can start tweeting now through Labor Day, Sept. 6, and if enough of us join in, we can make #unionmember a trending topic on Twitter! So set aside a few minutes to send your 140 character-or-less message that promotes the union advantage to your followers and friends.

You also can include this link http://umem.us to American Rights at Work?s official Labor Day Tweet-a-Thon website where you can track the #unionmember trending topic and get a quick view of celebrity tweets.

Members of the Screen Actors (SAG), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Actors? Equity (AEA), American Rights at Work and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBA) will be tweeting. Join us.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).