Civil rights leaders gathered April 8 in Washington D.C. to add their voices to the growing chorus of support for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and five other African American leaders held a conference call that brought together civil rights and labor leaders and activists from across the country.

“The right of workers to form unions and the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act in order to guarantee that right is unquestionably the civil rights issue of this century,” Henderson declared at the opening of the conference. “The right to organize a union is a civil right of the highest magnitude,” he said.

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