Labor & Employment Law

Shuler: Workers Sending SOS to ?Fix the Jobs Crisis?

By Mike Hall

When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler is on the road talking to workers around the country, she says the issue most on their minds is jobs.

Speaking before a group of labor, management, government and academic leaders and experts at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) annual meeting in Atlanta yesterday morning, Shuler said she was

bringing an SOS from the people I’ve met: Help us fix the jobs crisis.

She highlighted the terrible struggles of the nation’s young workers who are the latest victims of a 30-year corporate-led drive to create a low-wage workforce. Shuler explained how all workers?union and nonunion?enjoy better wages and benefits when unions are strong.

Shuler also went step-by-step over the AFL-CIO’s five-point plan to save and create millions of jobs in the next year.

Click here to read her entire presentation.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).