Weekly Update: Super Jobs? Or Super Flop?
Super Jobs? We Hope So
The Joint Select Committee that will be deciding how to make more cuts in federal spending, or the Super Committee, as some are calling it, must put jobs first. Over $4 trillion of the federal deficit over the next ten years will be due to the recession - and the only way to reverse that trend is recovery. We've seen the start of a double dip recession caused in part because we haven't had a strong enough recovery in employment. Any solution to the deficit problem must tackle the jobs problem.
A group of 23 Senators have joined together already to call on members of the Super Committee to put jobs first, among them Senator Merkley.
We want to commend Senator Merkley and his colleagues on their work to create good jobs, and echo their call for all members of the Super Committee to take up job creation as part of a comprehensive deficit solution.
In Other News...
Verizon Workers Need Our Support
CWA and IBEW members who work for Verizon providing traditional phone services are out on strike, and they need your help. Across the country union members and community allies are standing in solidarity with Verizon workers by holding informational pickets at Verizon's cellular stores. Shifts are still available!
You can also show your support by rallying next Thursday, August 25th, at 5pm, at the downtown Portland Verizon store. More information will be up on our website soon - www.oraflcio.org.
Benefit Bowling to Help an Injured Worker
IATSE is hosting a benefit afternoon with bowling and a raffle to raise funds for a fellow IATSE member who is injured and unable to work.
Grab your lucky ball, bring some extra cash for raffle tickets (IATSE has a history of getting some great prizes together) and meet us at SE 30th and Powell in Portland on Saturday, August 21st from 2-6pm. More information is available at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157488347663081.
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Playing Chicken with Our Economic Recovery
DECEMBER 20th, 2011 | Congress stands at the crossroads of yet another Federal shutdown, the third this year. If we were waiting for a clear indication that we need to more Representatives in Washington who will put working families and the middle class first, this is it. Partisan bickering keeps the real leaders on both sides of the aisle, who are ready to fight for the 99% of us who work for a living, doing their jobs.
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Breaking Down Wealth Inequality
NOVEMBER 30th, 2011 | Occupy Wall Street has rippled across the country leaving a wake of activism and protest in nearly every state and wide-scale demonstrations teeming in over 20 major North American cities. The message is clear: we are the 99%. We work the jobs, we pay the bills and we’re tired of the 1% keeping all of the profits.
