Labor & Employment Law

On Nov. 2, Workers Will Be Ready to Vote. Will You?

By Mike Hall

Two great get-out-the-vote videos out today, one by Transport Workers (TWU) and one by Boilermakers. TWU highlights how the hands of working men and women built America ?on assembly lines, on factory floors, in airplanes and on railroads.”

“It is our work and progress, putting something together piece by piece,? say real live workers?not Philadelphia actors. Invoking the spirit and commitment of past workers? struggles, and heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr., César Chávez, Joe Hill and Mother Jones, they warn:

There are some trying to pull it apart, outsourcing our jobs, gambling our retirement, denying us our health care?But these hands are strong. These hands are many.  And on Nov 2 these hands will be ready to vote.

In the Boilermakers’  ”I remember” video, workers describe the broken levees during Katrina, the food recalls, the Wall Street bailouts and the millions of outsourced U.S. jobs, all of which took place during Republican rule. Their conclusion?

I remember which party wants to take us back. And I remember which party wants to take us forward. I’m not voting Republican this year, because I have a memory.

Be sure to click on the videos to see the entire message. And be sure to Vote Nov.2.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).