Register Now for the Summit on Jobs and America’s Future
The Campaign for America’s Future is bringing together key leaders and grassroots activists for a critical Summit on Jobs and America’s Future March 10 to tell the truth about what it will take to get America working and to discuss solutions to the economic crisis.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will deliver the keynote address. Other speakers include Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.); Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum; Van Jones, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change; and pollster Celinda Lake.
The Summit on Jobs and America’s Future begins at 9 a.m. March 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. To register and to get more information, click here.
Jobs, Economic Fears—Not Love of Right—Fuel Workers’ Anger
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The nation’s working families “are understandably frustrated, anxious and angry,” says AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker.
“They are angry at Wall Street and the government…they don’t see anybody out there fighting with passion for good jobs…the forces of the right are at work to turn that anger in a dangerous direction.”
Holt Baker moderated a panel discussion—Working Class Anger: Does it Go Left or Right?—this afternoon at the America’s Future Now conference examining the roots of the anger that the mainstream media often portrays as the fuel that feeds the right-wing Tea Party movement.
Pollster Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners says people’s distrust of government is at an all-time high. That distrust stems from their economic concerns and fears that the government hasn’t been able to sooth, but is not an endorsement of the radical anti-government stance of the extreme right, she says.
SAG President Joins AFL-CIO Executive Council
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The AFL-CIO Executive Council today welcomed a new member, Ken Howard, president of the Screen Actors (SAG). Howard, who was elected to lead the actor’s union in September 2009, replaces former SAG President Alan Rosenberg.
Convening for a one-day meeting in Washington, D.C., the council heard from Ron Bloom, senior counselor to President Obama for manufacturing policy and a former staff member at the United Steelworkers (USW). The council and union leaders have repeatedly called on the Obama administration to quickly enact a national industrial policy to foster and sustain growth in the nation’s manufacturing industries. Increasing our manufacturing capacity is critical as the world prepares to move toward a green economy.
Pollster Celinda Lake also shared the results of polling on the economy and the political implications of a protracted jobs crisis.
