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Trumka: Open for Questions on the Jobs Crisis
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On Dec. 15, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will host a live online conversation on the nation’s jobs crisis–and you can take part.
Starting today, you can submit questions and vote on other ones submitted to the AFL-CIO’s “Open for Questions About the Jobs Crisis.” Trumka will answer the top-rated questions in the live online video discussion at 4 p.m. EST on Tues., Dec. 15.
Here’s how to take part:
• Visit http://www.aflcio.org/open to submit a question and vote on questions.
• Sign in here to participate if you have a Google account.
• If you don’t have a Google account, create one here.
Trumka will engage with union members and working family activists around the country and share solutions for restoring good jobs and revitalizing the nation’s economy.
Tune in here at 4 p.m. EST on Dec. 15 and get involved by submitting or voting on questions.
Check out the AFL-CIO five-point jobs plan here.
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How do I get assistance so I can get my own job and not be blamed for abandonment?
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I woud like to know what the AFL-CIO will do about workers who are working, getting sick and dying on Brownfield sites funded by the DOD &DOE. I would also like to know what you are willing to do to get the disabled workers their worker compensation benefits including, medical care, wages and vocational rehabilitation. For the last 20 years, millions of workers were disabled by on the job injuries, unions failed them and the federal government picked up the cost rather then the employer or their insurance carrier.
What will the AFL-CIO do to ensure health and safe work environments on these brownfield sites such as in Downey Ca. and where also a possible new GREEN car manufacturing plant called TESLA will be built ensuring more workers to deadly contaminates, toxins and molds, and that will also be non-union?