Trumka to Launch Jobs Initiative Tomorrow

Updated 4 months ago

Source: http://blog.aflcio.org/

 

 

 

Tomorrow morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce a major new initiative to create and save jobs.

(Watch the live webcast at www.aflcio.org/createjobs starting at 9 a.m.)

Trumka will be part of a noted panel in “Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis” at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

With unemployment at its highest rate in more than 20 years, Trumka says America needs bold, quick action to put people back to work ...

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs? For whom? Trumka’s close alliance with the National Council of La Raza would suggest it’s jobs for illegal immigrants.

Shame on AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka!

4 months ago by grace on Wordpress

There must be a return to Organized Labor’s basic understanding that the standard number of hours of paid labor required to earn a livable wage have to decrease as labor’s productivity increases. The alternative is cycle after cycle of jobless recoveries expanding the millions driven out or kept out of the economy unable to exercise citizen rights, human rights, much less help the economy

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4 months ago by Peggydobbins on Wordpress

Mike,

You will LOVE at least five components of the “10-to-4 Plan.”

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4 months ago by Sunhunterwith2 on Wordpress

The key to the discussion, and the potential success of long term structural re-employment will be exactly the way we define “rebuilding”.

The key to a bountiful green (building) economy is the reversal of the thirty, fifty, one hundred year trend of sprawl development, particularly in the United States (that’s what I know).

By rebuilding neighborhoods and reallocating
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4 months ago by Mike Morin on Wordpress

The 10-to-4 Unemployment Jobs Creation Plan (the “10-to-4 Plan”) has 17 components to re-start the U.S. economy so that U.S. consumers whose purchases represent roughly 3/4 of the U.S. GDP have regular income. The 10-to-4 Plan puts people to work in places like Braddock, Elkhart, Cleveland, Warren, Akron, Toledo, Dayton and scores of other communities where high unemployment exists because ... See all content

4 months ago by Sunhunterwith2 on Wordpress

You can also ‘watch’(Or listen, for those of us who will be in transit) if you have an iPhone get the Ustream app and search for “aflcionow”… as far as I know there’s no way to get ustream on your blackberry or any other devices…

4 months ago by BrettB on Wordpress

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