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Just eight days remain to get out the vote in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election between Jim Martin, an ally of working families, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Bush crony who repeatedly has voted against the interests of workers.
Martin, who is campaigning hard around the state, dropped in on the phone bank at the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 613 union hall in Atlanta for a visit last week. Jimmy Hyde, Labor 2008 director for Georgia, reports that Martin phone banked alongside hardworking union volunteers.
Martin…reiterated to everyone how important and meaningful the work we are doing is. Martin acknowledged that we need the labor movement to win this election and that union volunteers reaching out to their brothers and sisters during the phone banks, worksite leaflets, labor walks, and through local union mail are going to make the difference.
Georgia’s union members are mobilized around the state to get out every vote in this critical election.
Meanwhile, Chambliss is ignoring the issues that he should be focusing on in the Senate. Chambliss stayed in Georgia to campaign and skipped a vote on a bill to extend unemployment insurance to the thousands of workers who are suffering from the nation’s economic crisis.
Earlier this year, Chambliss joined a filibuster to block an economic stimulus bill that included an extension of unemployment benefits. And not just once: He voted to stop unemployment extension in its tracks in September and in February, too.
If Martin wins, he’d be the 59th pro-worker U.S. senator to support working families on health care, jobs and the freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life. You can help support Martin here.
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IT IS CLEAR WHATCITY BANK NEEDS, IT IS NOT AT ALL CLEAR WHAT THE AUTO INDUSTRY NEEDS. THAT YOUR CEOs WENT TO OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE WITH OPEN HANDS AND NO PLAN, AND THAT YOU NOW DO THE SAME GRUBBY THING IS TRULY DISAPPOINTING.
WORKERS’ JOB INTERESTS HAVE LONG REQUIRED
THAT THEY HAVE DETERMINATION IN THE FINAL PRODUCT. THEIR JOB SECURITY IS TIED INTO THEIR DOING THAT. YOU STOOD SILENT WHILE
YOUR EMPLOERS PRODUCED TRUE BEASTS OF BURDEN, AND YOU EXCUSED YOUR MORAL LAPSE BY CLAIMING IT WAS WHAT THE CONSUMER WANTED.
THE NEW CLASS OF UNION CEOs HAVE NEVER SEEN WHAT YEARS AGO THE BUILDERS OF UNIONS SAW. FOR THE SAKE OF JOBS,THESE NEW ONES HAVE NOT SEEN THE NEED FOR PRODUCT ETHICS, AND THAT FORM OF INBREEDING GUARANTEED THAT THE PRODUCT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME SOMEONE ELSES BUSINESS.