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Trumka Stumps for Jobs, Justice for Hotel Workers |
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka kicks off a swing through California with a focus on jobs for America’s workers and justice for hotel workers. We will blog, Twitter and offer Facebook coverage of the events, but here’s a preview of the major actions.
Tomorrow in San Diego, he will tour the San Diego Central Labor Council’s pre-apprenticeship training program designed to help prepare students for construction and building trades unions’ apprenticeships.
Later, Trumka joins San Diego local labor, community, political leaders and workers at a jobs rally to promote local hiring for public works projects and contracted services.
Thursday in Los Angeles, he will meet with students at the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Training Institute, where they are learning skills to prepare for family supporting jobs—with a special emphasis on green jobs.
Late this afternoon in San Francisco, he will join several hundred members of UNITEHERE! Local 2, UNITEHERE! President John Wilhelm and community supporters for a march and rally to demand a fair contract for workers at several national hotel chains.
The profitable chains, including Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood, are using the recession as an excuse to demand health care benefit cuts in contract talks with more than 16,000 workers at dozens of hotels in San Francisco, Chicago and other cities. On Thursday, he will join workers for a rally and picket in from of the Hyatt Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
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consider this new acronym for the GOP – the PHC Party
P — for Pamper the Ultra-Rich
H — for Hoodwink the Middle Classes
C — for Crucify the Poor
Personally, I prefer the Party of Death: a party that’s happily willing to have thousands of AMericans die yearly for lack of medical coverage, that finds there’s never any money for living wages and jobs programs, but also finds there’s always plenty of money for killing, weapons, and war. That’s truly a Party of Death.
I completely agree Fellini8. It seems lately that the only people not screwed out of wages or benifits in the USA, are those working in defense or mercenary related job fields. My neibhor worked for ATK (lake city ammunition defense plant here in Missouri), back in the mid ’90s, He made $24 an hr., after he left (weary of the lack of modern training, working with punch card computers) he made $20 an hr. After Katrina, Blackwater mercs were sent to “protect” the city making $90 an hr…sure that was totally neccessary and priority!