Labor & Employment Law

Dec. 7: Show Your Solidarity with Long-term Jobless Workers on Facebook, Twitter

By James Parks

Congress left town for Thanksgiving break  without taking any action to renew emergency unemployment insurance (UI) for 800,000 long-term job seekers. By the time Congress gets back to work, a million people could be without insurance to feed their families or pay their bills. Some 2 million people will lose their UI by the end of this year.

Mark your calendar for a Dec. 7 day of online solidarity with America’s long-term jobless workers.

That day, you can show your solidarity with jobless workers by replacing your Facebook and Twitter images with this Jobless avatar (above). And change your status to: “We Are All Jobless.” We will post more details in the coming days.

Meantime, you also can take action now. Click here to see our Unemployment Benefits Clock  and share it with your friends. We urge you to post it on Facebook, tweet it, and embed the clock to your blog or website.

Let Congress know that refusing to extend this essential assistance to those in need is not the American way.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).