Union Members Tell McCain: Address Needs of Working Families

by Seth Michaels, Jul 1, 2008

Frank Snyder, Labor 2008 state director for Pennsylvania, reports on a union rally outside a John McCain campaign stop.

More than 70 union members and activists gathered outside Worth and Co. in Pipersville, Pa., to highlight Sen. John McCain’s anti-worker record as he held a town hall meeting inside the building.

Members from AFSCME, AWIU, CWA, IAFF, IBEW, NATCA, SMWIA, UA, UFCW and USW attended the rally, chanting “John McCain is more of the same” and holding signs that read “Turn Around America” and “John McCain Voted Against Health Care for Children.”

Southeastern Area Labor Federation Chairman Steve Sarno said it was crucial to get the word out to workers on McCain’s record:

Working people can see where John McCain’s support of the Bush administration’s policies will get us. We’ve lost thousands of jobs here in Pennsylvania under those policies, and John McCain not only wants to continue sending jobs overseas, but he also supports tax cuts for big oil companies and opposes the Employee Free Choice Act. We are here to tell him that working people won’t stand for it.

John Meyerson, president of the Montgomery County Union Council, said McCain still isn’t offering working families answers that will address their economic struggles—and that Sen. Barack Obama continues to fight for workers’ interests.

We are here to tell John McCain that his economic policies are bad for working people and that he won’t get any support from us this election.

Barack Obama has, from the beginning, been talking about issues that resonate with working families like health care, the Employee Free Choice Act and fair trade. There is no question that he stands with the labor movement. Fixing the state of this failing economy will be all about working people putting him in office.

The union movement came out in striking numbers to set the record straight: McCain does not stand with working families, and working families will not stand for another four years of his failed policies.

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