Labor & Employment Law

Labor Day Wrap: It?s Time for Jobs

By James Parks

While AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was in Milwaukee Labor Day with President Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler traveled throughout California, taking part in three Labor Day celebrations. In Los Angeles, she told an enthusiastic crowd at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor ?s Labor Day breakfast:

There’s nothing wrong with good jobs in America. There’s nothing wrong with trade that creates jobs?instead of killing them.

At Detroit?s massive Labor Day parade and rally, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker told the more than 50,000 participants we must use our votes to ensure that jobs are created:  

For the next 57 days [until the election], the labor movement is going to be hard core about politics?the politics of change and not the politics of “No.” What we’re working for is jobs?jobs and the future.

Before traveling to Milwaukee, Trumka joined Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) at the Lorain Labor Day Festival near Cleveland. Read Trumka?s remarks in Milwaukee here and in Ohio here.

After speaking in Los Angeles, Shuler also attended the Sacramento Central Labor Council?s picnic along with gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. Later that day, she took part in the Alameda Labor Council?s Labor Day barbecue in Oakland. Shuler also took part in a Labor in the Pulpit service Sunday in Los Angeles, while Holt Baker spoke to worshippers in North Miami Lakes, Fla., on Sunday. Read Holt Baker?s remarks in Florida here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).