Labor & Employment Law

Painters Launch ?It?s About the Jobs? Bus Tour

By James Parks

People who desperately want to go back to work don?t want to hear the same old rhetoric from politicians this year?they want candidates to put politics aside and tell us all what they are going to do to get America working again.

Yesterday, the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) launched a coast-to-coast ?It?s About The Jobs? bus tour to connect IUPAT members across the country with the candidates the union believes are the best hope to generate and bring back jobs.

 The bus, wrapped in IUPAT signature black and gold, began its monthlong trip in Seattle and will make its way across the country, winding through the West and Midwest and New York City, before ending its trip in Delaware.

IUPAT President James Williams says the bus tour will educate candidates about the need for jobs for all Americans and their families.

You can follow the IUPAT bus tour here and get regular updates from the road on Twitter @GoIUPAT. Speaking of Twitter, even the ‘It’s About Jobs!’ bus driver is getting in on the action. You can read his thoughts on tour events by following @JakeTheDriver. You also can watch videos from the campaign on the IUPAT YouTube channel,  www.youtube.com/goiupat, or their Facebook page.

 The stakes for working people in this election are high. The entire U.S. House of Representatives and 37 Senate seats are up for election?and along with the hundreds of state and local races, the outcomes will determine how well all of us can shape a pro-worker agenda. AFL-CIO unions are working hard as part of Labor 2010 to mobilize working families across the country to make jobs the number one issue in the campaigns and to make sure candidates commit to creating real jobs to put America back to work. For more information on Labor 2010, click here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).