Labor & Employment Law

Bite Back Against Job Stealers

By James Parks

As joblessness worsens, the nation?s unemployed workers are fighting back. A video by UCubed, Ur Union of Unemployed, graphically depicts what has happened to America’s jobless and calls for fighting back against those who are to blame: Senate Republicans who launched a filibuster to block an extension of unemployment benefits.

The video has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since Labor Day, according to Machinists (IAM) spokesman Rick Sloan. UCubed is affiliated with IAM. 

With more than 1 million families close to losing their homes through foreclosure, the ad focuses on the ridiculous and insulting idea of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) who says unemployed workers should be drug tested. The ad lays it on the line:

They stole our jobs, stole our pensions. Our savings?gone. Our homes gone. Now they want to take away our dignity?.

The video issues a call to all unemployed workers to bite back like ?Jaws? against the Senate Republicans  ?who don?t give a damn about us? and vote in November to send them packing.

For more information on how the unemployed can fight back, visit the UCubed website here or on Facebook here.

Working America, the AFL-CIO?s community affiliate, also is organizing and mobilizing unemployed workers to go to the polls in November to make sure candidates who favor outsourcing or don?t support workers join them in the unemployment lines.

If you are unemployed, check out the Unemployment Lifeline here.  The Unemployment Lifeline is a one-stop guide that links workers to the resources in their area  from unemployment offices to veterans’ services to child care.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).