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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis told a group of Chicago area union, community, business and academic leaders the Employee Free Choice Act will level the playing field for workers who want to form unions and bargain of a better life.
I believe what you all believe. Union jobs are good jobs, paying higher salaries and wages.
In a speech yesterday before the Union League Club of Chicago—co-sponsored by the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL)—Solis pledged to work with President Obama “to make the strongest case possible for the Employee Free Choice Act.”
I believe workers have the right to fairness and balance in the workplace and in order to rebuild the middle class, we need to level the playing field for all workers.
In his introductory remarks, CFL President Dennis Gannon said:
It’s great to know we have a president who understands working men and women and who is not afraid to say the word “union”…and a Secretary of Labor who understands the issues that are important to families who are struggling, who are losing their houses or are losing the pensions, who have problems with health care.
Turning to workplace safety, Solis said the Labor Department was hiring 130 new workplace safety inspectors to strongly enforce job safety rules. Also, next year it will hold a national summit on construction safety and the Latino workers to “forge new ways to educate workers about their rights and employers about their responsibilities.”
Workplace safety is not only our responsibility but it is our moral obligation especially since low wage, low skill and immigrant workers are particularly vulnerable to workplace injury and death .. No matter who are you, no one should have to die for a job.
Solis called the nation’s 9.4 percent unemployment rate “unacceptable” and that the 12 percent-plus rate for African Americans and Latinos and the more than 20 percent rate for young workers percent must be reduced.
To some it might just sound like numbers, but it’s about real people, about real families about real suffering that’s going on in our nation.
She said the economic recovery act passed earlier this year has helped put the brakes on a declining economy and helped save and create jobs. Economists estimate that 720,000 jobs have been created or saved. Solis also said that Labor Department has made nearly $850 million in job training and green energy job with a special emphasis on minority, young and women workers.
Click here to hear a podcast of Solis’s speech.
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