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Thousands to Rally in Los Angeles Friday for Jobs

By James Parks

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With a critical election less than three months away and jobs foremost among voters’ concerns, thousands of working people will join community and labor leaders from across the country Friday in Los Angeles to let our elected leaders and political candidates know we need real action, not campaign rhetoric, on creating good jobs that can?t be outsourced.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), Letter Carriers (NALC) President Fredric Rolando, Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and community and labor leaders will speak at a massive rally in front of city hall, starting at noon PT.

Delegates to the NALC convention, meeting in nearby Anaheim, will join the rally along with union members from the building trades, public employees and other trades to send a strong message: ?Paychecks Pay the Bills.?

Participants will highlight the need for jobs as the top answer to the economic crisis and to:

Push for the 30/10 Initiative to build 30 year?s worth of mass transit in the next 10 years.
Defend six-day mail delivery and keep thousands of postal jobs.
Dramatize that more people working means more money for public safety, schools, mass transit and health care.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).