Tina Korbe
HotAir.com
11/13/2011
Three major national unions plan to join members of the Occupy Wall Street movement for “We are the 99 percent” protests next Thursday. The AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union and the Laborers’ International Union of North America are eager to piggyback on the press of OWS — all to call for increased infrastructure spending. MoveOn.org and the American Dream Movement also plan to join the party.
The Hill reports:
Bill Samuel, the AFL-CIO’s director of government affairs, said labor has been frustrated by Republican-led filibusters in the Senate to block the parts of President Obama’s jobs bill that would increase infrastructure spending.
“It is an effort to focus public attention on repairing bridges and help with the jobs crisis. The Congress seems to be unable to do either at the moment with Republicans blocking these measures,” Samuel said.
The “Day of Action” will feature one march from Albany to New York City and another from a Verizon call center in Maryland to McPherson Square in Washington D.C. (Why Verizon? The company has been embroiled in a labor union dispute.) MoveOn also hopes a little protesting will occur at structurally sketchy sites to illustrate the need for funding for repairs…
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Related: Why Dems can’t quite Occupy Wall Street.
…If progressivism stops being a jobs racket, it loses much of its power.
Constitution? Bah! We demand jobs! Occupy joins Obama czar in effort to rewrite America
A partner of Occupy Wall Street has launched a massive push for a public works program under the banner of “Occupy the Jobs” in which the government would be required to provide jobs at union wages for more than 30 million unemployed and underemployed workers.
The concept bears a striking resemblance to proposals by Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s regulatory czar, who has sought a new Bill of Rights in which the government is constitutionally required to offer each citizen a “useful” job.
Another major Occupy goal, a new U.S. Constitution, is similar to a Sunstein-initiated effort – involving other senior White House officials and funded by billionaire George Soros – to push for a new, “progressive” U.S. Constitution…
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