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As Congress considers whether to renew unemployment insurance (UI) for long-term jobless workers and extend COBRA to help unemployed workers maintain health care, they should take time to find out about the experiences of workers beyond the Washington, D.C., beltway.
Richard Duncan, who works for the Tennessee AFL-CIO technical assistance program, has met many unemployed workers. The assistance program helps union workers who have been laid off (see video above).
I’ve traveled the state of Tennessee and seen an enormous number of union brothers and sisters lose their jobs. Since 2006, I’ve seen the same people. They lose their job at one facility. Then they go to another facility, then there’s an additional layoff and they lose their job again.
The extensions for UI and COBRA expire Feb. 28. Click here to tell your lawmakers it’s time to act.
Duncan’s video highlights workers urging Congress to act on the AFL-CIO’s five-point jobs program. Union members across the nation are rallying behind the AFL-CIO plan to create jobs now and President Obama’s jobs legislation. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said after Obama’s state of the union address:
Now it’s time for all of us to get busy and work together to bring the big changes that are essential-starting with enacting a jobs bill that is big enough to create jobs for the millions of people who want to work and can’t find jobs. The time for small change is long gone.
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Please, call on a National Million (and more) Man/Woman March on the Republican Congress to demand: 1. OUTSOUCING: Tariff and more tax companies’ who have taken companies to other countries for cheap labor. (Deport them, take their licenses, etc.) 2. REGULATE the blazes out of the banks victimizing everyone and taking tax dollars. Deregulation started with Reagan. His comment is printed in Wiki, I believe, to have been “We hit the jackpot. Freeze foreclosures under 175,000, for those who have worked when jobs existed; renew unemployment and extend cobra. 4.ABUSED MILITARY: Bring all US troops home; our military is abused as they are forced to engage in wars to prepare or clean up after our businesses agressing economically in other countries regarding to getting ahold of, or processing their natural resources, their cheap labor, etc. These opinions are shared by many; I read them every day. Let’s do it. Enough are off work or retired. We can get more than a million to : MARCH IN MARCH! Let’s do it! Give us a national date and call on the populace. It’s way past time to confront Republicans in DC.
You are right. We must act now. Things have gotten so bad that the immigrants who struggle so much to get here without papers are returning home on their own accord. We must either change things here. or I will go to Mexico too.