Reports of a Scary Halloween in Erie, Pa.
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Just when you thought it was a safe bet you wouldn’t see any more ghouls and vampires lurking around, AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer sends us this from Pennsylvania.
The Community Services Committee of the Erie-Crawford Central Labor Council in Erie, Pa., partnered with local church members to sponsor a Halloween party. Several gun incidents prompted parents to come together to provide a safe and fun environment for more than 60 children at the Word of Faith Church in Erie. The good will fostered between the two groups will allow them to work together on future community issues.
This Halloween, Go with Union-Made Treats
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When the hordes of Halloween trick-or-treaters—from tiny Lady Gagas to younger-than-Justin-Biebers, along with the traditional pirates, witches and ghosts—come knocking on your door, you can treat them to union-made Halloween candy. It’s the good stuff, too.
Our friends at the Northwest Labor Press checked in with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) union to find out which candy carried union cards.
Scariest Pumpkin Ever
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Halloween is a time for scary things: Ghosts, vampires, witches…you know the list. But in the real world there are things far more frightening than fangs and broomsticks that somehow never get etched onto a pumpkin.
You can chase a vampire away with some garlic or fire, but if the vampire bites you, you’ll be in real trouble. Not from the bite, but from the lack of health care to fix it.
Can you even imagine the reasons your insurance company would come up with to deny that claim? Suddenly, having friends who wear black capes would be a pre-existing condition and blood transfusions would be an experimental procedure.
That’s why we at Working America are hosting the “scariest pumpkin ever” online exhibit. In honor of the season, we decided to put something truly terrifying onto pumpkins: health insurance companies. (Or their logos, anyway.)
We’ve gotten started with a few pumpkins, but we want more. You can see a few more pumpkins here—and while you’re there, print out a stencil to make your own truly scary pumpkin and take action supporting health care reform so that next Halloween, insurance companies aren’t a real-life nightmare for so many of us.
