09/07/10 | Workers Independent News Submitted by Doug Cunningham on September 6, 2010 - 6:14pm
Workers gathered in the rain to march in Milwaukee’s Labor Day parade and hear President Obama speak had a lot on their minds – about the economy, the labor movement, politics and the struggles working people are facing nationwide. Karen Black is in SEIU.
Karen Black: “I believe President Obama has been fighting hard for working families. I believe he’s been fighting hard againsts Republican party that is the party of no. And I think what needs to be changed is people’s minds about how working families are suffering with unemployment, budget cuts, states are broke . . . I definitely think the president needs to focus on more jobs, more infrastructure, more industry staying in the United States and not sending their workers overseas to have cheap labor.”
John Drew is in the UAW.
John Drew: “The enthusiasm and the excitement that’s out here amongst organized labor is just amazing. Even though the economy has not recovered like we would have liked it to have, labor is still out here fighting for jobs, fighting for justice. If President Obama would not have done what he did during the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies those companies would not exist today, and hundreds of thousands of workers would be out of a job, hundreds of thousands of retirees would have been without health insurance and would have had their pensions significantly cut.”
Keisha Hollis is a CWA member.
Keisha Hollis: “We need more people n the government seats that are for working families, basically to fight for us – the middle class families.”
Marietta Love is a Vice-President with AFT Local 212.
Marietta Love: “We got a president in who was sympathetic and knowledgeable of what the needs of the average worker is. After getting those needs met to a degree – we’re at the start of that but we need to finish the job.”
Dwayne Wesley belongs to United Steel Workers Local 3740.
Dwayne Wesley: “There’s a lot of people out there that’s hurtin’. The economy is really bad. People are strugglin’ every day. So they’re lookin’ for answers from our leaders to give us some help and some hope. There’s not a strong enough or fast enough recovery goin’ on. People are lookin’ for someone to step up and really look out for the people.”
The CWA’s George Walls says for workers in America THE most important issue that Obama has yet to act on is the Employee Free Choice Act.
George Walls:”The right for people to organize with card check recognition. I believe that employers today have created a second class of working people. Many of the employers out there the top pay is $13-15 an hour. That’s not a liveable wage when you’re payin’ a lot of money for your health insurance and so on. And the corporate executives continue to make millions of dollars. Hopefully by organizing we’ll strengthen all of us and all of us can make a fair living.
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Karen Black: “I believe President Obama has been fighting hard for working families. I believe he’s been fighting hard againsts Republican party that is the party of no. And I think what needs to be changed is people’s minds about how working families are suffering with unemployment, budget cuts, states are broke . . . I definitely think the president needs to focus on more jobs, more infrastructure, more industry staying in the United States and not sending their workers overseas to have cheap labor.”
John Drew is in the UAW.
John Drew: “The enthusiasm and the excitement that’s out here amongst organized labor is just amazing. Even though the economy has not recovered like we would have liked it to have, labor is still out here fighting for jobs, fighting for justice. If President Obama would not have done what he did during the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies those companies would not exist today, and hundreds of thousands of workers would be out of a job, hundreds of thousands of retirees would have been without health insurance and would have had their pensions significantly cut.”
Keisha Hollis is a CWA member.
Keisha Hollis: “We need more people n the government seats that are for working families, basically to fight for us – the middle class families.”
Marietta Love is a Vice-President with AFT Local 212.
Marietta Love: “We got a president in who was sympathetic and knowledgeable of what the needs of the average worker is. After getting those needs met to a degree – we’re at the start of that but we need to finish the job.”
Dwayne Wesley belongs to United Steel Workers Local 3740.
Dwayne Wesley: “There’s a lot of people out there that’s hurtin’. The economy is really bad. People are strugglin’ every day. So they’re lookin’ for answers from our leaders to give us some help and some hope. There’s not a strong enough or fast enough recovery goin’ on. People are lookin’ for someone to step up and really look out for the people.”
The CWA’s George Walls says for workers in America THE most important issue that Obama has yet to act on is the Employee Free Choice Act.
George Walls:”The right for people to organize with card check recognition. I believe that employers today have created a second class of working people. Many of the employers out there the top pay is $13-15 an hour. That’s not a liveable wage when you’re payin’ a lot of money for your health insurance and so on. And the corporate executives continue to make millions of dollars. Hopefully by organizing we’ll strengthen all of us and all of us can make a fair living.
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