Tired of political theater?

[Omaha Steve]

Take action here: http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1306


Aren’t you tired of all the political theater we’ve been seeing?

Some on Capitol Hill are in a race to see who can propose more government spending cuts—whether the cuts make sense or not.

Instead of creating good jobs, anti-worker legislators in Congress want to go after hundreds of thousands of jobs. Their plans to freeze pay for federal workers and proposals to cut and eliminate jobs, pensions and health care benefits are political grandstanding, period.

Please add your name: Demand an end to political theater and focus on creating good jobs now. We’ll deliver your petition by hand on Feb. 8.

America’s long-term deficit problem has absolutely nothing to do with federal workers. The people who keep our food safe, send out Social Security checks, provide health care for veterans and protect workers’ rights and our environment didn’t cause the deficit—and hurting them won’t solve it.

On TUESDAY, we’re joining our brothers and sisters who work for the federal government in rejecting these outrageous, unwarranted attacks. We’ll be on Capitol Hill with AFGE demanding an end to political theater and calling for a comprehensive economic recovery plan that creates millions of good, middle-class jobs.

Add your name to our petition supporting our AFGE brothers and sisters—we’ll deliver your petition signature by hand on Tuesday.

Slashing middle-class jobs, pay and benefits is not the way out of a deep recession. We need more good jobs to fix our economy, not fewer.

We can’t cut our way out of a hole—we need to build our way out. But as I write, some lawmakers want to cut more than 200,000 federal jobs—15 percent of the workforce—and recklessly slash government programs many of us rely on. Most of these lawmakers have no plans to do big things to get our economy moving again.

Please sign our petition for good, middle-class jobs in the private and public sectors—and an end to the political theater. We’ll hand-deliver it Tuesday.

In solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

P.S. We’re in a jobs crisis and America’s middle class is suffering already. So why get in a race to the bottom by killing more jobs and benefits? We should be creating jobs and helping the middle class.

Please sign our petition urging our leaders to stop destroying good jobs and develop a plan for economic recovery.

As President Trumka says:

We can and should be building up the American middle class—not tearing it down. We need to educate our children, build a clean energy future and invest in 21st century American infrastructure that makes us competitive in the world. It’s time to act like the wealthy, compassionate, imaginative country we are—not turn ourselves into a third-rate, impoverished “has-been.”

Make your voice heard for good, middle-class jobs. We’ll hand-deliver your petition signature TUESDAY.

To find out more about the AFL-CIO, please visit our website at www.aflcio.org.

[Better Believe It]

1. A petition "mobilization" for jobs. That and some e-mails ought to do it.

I think the AFL-CIO needs to get just a bit bolder and actually mobilizing working people, not just their members, but all workers who are suffering during this economic crisis.

Mass meetings against job cuts?

Rallies demaning jobs for all?

Anti-eviction protests?

mmmmmmm .........

[Omaha Steve]

3. Fast results!

http://www.workingamerica.org/join/

Check it out. For non-union and dues are voluntary.

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2. done. nt