"All that serves Labor serves the nation. All that harms is treason. If a man tells you he trusts America, yet fears Labor, he is a fool. There is no America without Labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other."             -Abraham Lincoln

  

 

THOUSAND MARCH ON NLRB

Oct 18, Detroit

 

Thousands of working families and union members marched in solidarity on the National Labor Relations Board in Detroit to condemn the injustices of the Labor Board and US labor policies that put the middle class last.

 

Event organizers call attention to the damage the Bush NLRB has done to the US economy through depressing the wages and purchasing power of working people and consumers all across the nation. The labor board been an arm of corporate America for the last few years, obstructed American's right to freely choose to form unions and have good union jobs, and in doing so has driven down wages and purchasing power so far as to disrupt commerce and destabilize the markets.

 

The Justice for Workers NOW! Coalition is calling for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act as a solution. The legislation has bipartisan support and is widely viewed as the modern economic recovery act in that it will create middle class prosperity and potentially pump billions into the domestic economy.

 

Top Union Leaders, including AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka, came in from Washington to address the crowd. read more and see speeches.

 

 

  

 

"Always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of MILLIONS OF VOICES calling for CHANGE!"          

-Senator Barack Obama, IL

  
 
 
 

 

SIGN THE PETITION- DEMAND THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT

 

"And the companies, the banks worked at their own doom and they did not know it. The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their sides. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line. And money that might have gone for wages went for gas, for guns, for agents and spies, for blacklists, for drilling. On the highways the people moved like ants and searched for work, for food. And the anger began to ferment...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, heavy for the vintage."               

                                                                                                      -John Steinbeck