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Share Your Job Crisis Story, Connect with Activists at Our New Good Jobs Now Site
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Good Jobs Now, the AFL-CIO’s new interactive website, gives workers, people who have lost their jobs and activists a chance to take action, share their stories, find resources and, most importantly, be part of a grassroots movement to help the nation climb out of its 10-million jobs hole created by the recession.
Just launched this morning, Good Jobs Now’s first featured action is a petition calling on Whirlpool Corp., to reverse its decision to close its Evansville, Ind., plant and send work to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 good jobs.
As the AFL-CIO’s Good Jobs Now mobilization heats up in the coming weeks, you will be able to find events in your area so you can join the growing movement demanding that lawmakers focus on job creation and hold corporations like Whirlpool and big Wall Street banks accountable for their economic damage.
To help build and connect a community of job activists, the new site gives workers, employed and jobless, the opportunity to share their stories, photos and videos of how the job crisis has affected them, their families and communities, as well as ideas about the best ways to solve the job crisis and help rebuild the middle class. You also can read and comment on the stories.
Good Jobs Now also includes a video section on rallies, marches and other jobs action, including a video from a Sacramento jobs rally earlier this month and several with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka discussing vital economic issues. There is also a section with the latest on jobs rallies from the field.
There are downloadable tools for activists and union leaders, including information on ways to help families hit by the jobs crisis, developing infrastructure jobs and putting people back to work. Good Jobs Now features a detailed look at the AFL-CIO’s five-point national jobs agenda and the federation’s detailed state jobs agenda.
You will find links to other important jobs sites, including the AFL-CIO’s and Working America’s Unemployment Lifeline, the Machinists’ new UCubed website, Union Plus’ Union Safe Layoff Assistance for Union Members and the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs.
Go ahead and check it out, let your friends and co-workers know and let’s all come together to solve the job crisis.
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Let’s think out of the box. We need a Federal Jobs program (WPA), like the one that worked so well providing jobs, a wage, and hope for ALL AGES during the Great Depression. It can be done. We need more government now, not less.
Tyler i agree with you and the sooner the better. why not take the money that would be other wise spent for unemployment and give it to those that are willing to work and pay back into the system so they can get the benefits of health care and proping up their unemployment for use again when they need it. Alas no one will listen…. i had the same posts on other sites. But i’ll tell you this IF this government doesn’t get off their asses and do this their are going to be alot more unemployed and housing goning down the drain… their will be a great state of despair and poverty stricken induviduals that will never be able to bounce back.
If we had an immediate 4-day, 32-hour workweek through amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, many good jobs would be created immediately. The labor movement was built on agitating for shorter work time but has abandoned its core mission. Since the 1930s we have mistakenly thought that money – borrowed money – was the driver of employment. Under Bush, we thought borrowing from home-equity lines of credit were the answer to a growing economy. No, the economy is based on a sound interchange of goods and services which does not involve going into debt.
We need shorter workweeks in all countries to create jobs and keep environmental destruction to a minimum. Continued GDP growth in financial terms is ruinous if it is based on chronic trade deficits and continued borrowing of money.
I lost my job after suffering a work related injury in 2003 as a driver. I am in my fifties, and have little hope of finding another job in my present condition. I appreciate your organization and enjoy the website, however the one issue that is never addressed is worker abuse at the hands of insurance companies, as it relates to the handling of worker’s compensation claims. I am entering into the seventh year of an accepted claim, and have yet to receive adequate medical care for my injuries. Certainly I can’t be alone in my suffering with these issues. Is the insurance lobby so powerful, as to silence all of us. Can we expect to see an investigation into this abuse any time soon? This is a nationwide problem. Why doesn’t anyone care about us?
Public works projects to improve infrastructure, count me in! Plenty of bridges, roads, dams, and schools need repairs and upgrades. Creates good jobs and invests in our future.
wmcg, a 4 day work week is an interesting idea. I think they have this in Germany, along with universal health care.
Injured in CA, I’m sorry about your struggle for health care. I agree, it’s brutal to have age and illness/injury while trying to find work. Have you retained an attorney to help you get medical attention for your injuries and any disability benefits you’re due?
If we had “Medicare for All”, it’d be one huge weight off all of our shoulders, in my opinion.
The WPA worked for us in the 1930′s and would work again today! Unfortunatley our president stated his prefers to to rely on the “private sector” to hire more workers! I guess he just doesn’t get it, THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAUSED THE CRISIS!
Back in the 30′s the labor movement was small and handicapped by bureaucrats bogged down with racism, elitist ideas of skilled over unskilled workers and those who espoused support of the so-called FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM aka CAPITALISM!
Thank God, the lefties in the labor movement took on the challenge and organized the steel, auto, packinghouse, rubber, and oil industries! There was NO established labor laws, yet through mass strikes, sit ins, civil disobedience, boycotts, etc we were able to push the government into establishing the old NLRA, legisltion that worked. Along with the NLRA the government came up with with unemployment compensation, social security, the WPA and other sorely needed social policies!
My point is that unless we take to the streets as before, NOTHING will change! Depending on the good will of the politicians has gotten us the mess that we are in today!