Common Cause joined over 80 organizations on Tuesday in asking eBay to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate lobbying group.

Trong một letter to eBay executives, the coalition partners cited ALEC’s extreme agenda, including its denial of the impact of climate change and its opposition to net neutrality. They also complained that ALEC hides its role in writing state laws. A Common Cause complaint to the IRS challenges ALEC’s status as a nonprofit, charitable organization and asserts the group functions as a lobby for its corporate members.

“ALEC is a corporate lobby that masquerades as a charity and uses its non-profit tax status to evade lobbying disclosure laws,” said Common Cause President Miles Rapoport. “It supports a radical policy agenda that would have government ignore climate change, block localities from guaranteeing workers a living wage, and dismantle programs that offer a helping hand to victims of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Ebay should join the dozens of companies that have severed ties with ALEC.”

The letter urges eBay to follow the example set by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, International Paper, Occidental Petroleum, News Corporation, and Overstock.com, all companies that recently have announced that they have left ALEC or plan to depart soon. Additionally, Uber and Lyft, two prospective ALEC members whose representatives attended ALEC’s most recent annual meeting, told Common Cause they have no plans to join, participate, or fund ALEC.

ALEC brings state legislators and corporate lobbyists together in private, often at lavish resort hotels, to fashion legislative proposals that advance the interests of its corporate members, frequently at the expense of the general public.

Since 2011, more than 90 corporations and at least 400 state legislators have dropped their memberships in ALEC.

Organizations signing the letter to eBay include environmental, labor, religious, citizen action, and public interest groups.

The list of organizations who have signed the letter is below:

Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA)
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
Tiếng nói của gia đình Mỹ
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Người Mỹ vì Hành động Dân chủ (ADA)
Americans United for Change
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA)
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Boston Common Asset Management
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF)
Campaign to Unload
Catholics United
Trung tâm Chính phủ Hiệu quả
Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed
Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Climate Parents
ColorofChange.org
Nguyên nhân phổ biến
Công nhân truyền thông Hoa Kỳ (CWA)
Corporate Accountability International
CourageCampaign.org
Công dân vì trách nhiệm và đạo đức ở Washington (CREW)
CREDO Action
Democracy for America
Bản demo
Dignity Health
Liên minh hành động năng lượng
Environmental Defense Fund
Families USA
Forecast The Facts
Friends Fiduciary Corporation
Friends of the Earth U.S.
Global Exchange
Green Century Capital Management
Hòa bình xanh
In The Public Interest
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Việc làm với công lý
League of Conservation Voters
Midwest Coalition for Responsible investment
Money Out Voters In
Montana Environmental Information Center
MoveOn.org
National Council of Churches USA
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Hiệp hội Giáo dục Quốc gia (NEA)
Dự án Luật Việc làm Quốc gia (NELP)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment
PAX World Management
Những người theo phong cách Mỹ
Progress Arizona
Tiến trình Florida
Progress Iowa
Progress Missouri
Progress Now
Progress Ohio
Progress Virginia
Chiến dịch công khai
Công dân công cộng
Responsible Endowments Coalition
RootsAction
Công đoàn nhân viên dịch vụ quốc tế (SEIU)
Câu lạc bộ Sierra
Sierra Student Coalition
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Công trình an sinh xã hội
Stand Up To ALEC
SumofUs
SustainUS
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
Công nhân thực phẩm và thương mại thống nhất (UFCW)
United Steelworkers (USW)
US Action
We Act Radio
Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota Coalition for Responsible Investment
Làm việc tại Mỹ
Zevin Asset Management