Folks --
I just went to a Stop and Shop in Boston to stand with some of the 31,000 union members who are currently fighting against cuts to wages and health care for themselves and their families.
These are the workers who stock the shelves at your grocery stores. They ring you up when you're filling your prescriptions at chain pharmacies around the country. The put some of your favorite American-made foods—from Campbell's soup to Quaker Oats—on the kitchen table.
And right now, their wages and health care stand to be cut by a massive international retailer—who, by the way, has bought back billions of dollars of their own stock in the last five years.
Some people are afraid to say the word "union" for baseless political reasons. I'm not one of those people.
If you're not either, then I'm asking you to join me by standing with these men and women—because unions built this country, plain and simple.
It's time we told the truth about what unions have really done for America.
With the dues they paid, the picket lines they walked, the negotiations they sweated through, those union workers weren't just standing up for other union workers.
The rights they fought for benefited every American worker.
Minimum wage. Overtime pay. The 40-hour workweek. Safer working conditions. The elimination of child labor, for crying out loud. The list goes on and on.
This country wasn't built by a few Wall Street bankers, CEOs, or hedge fund managers. It was built by the American middle class.
And unions built the American middle class by standing up for the common good of every American worker.
Today, we're standing up for them. Join me by adding your name and showing your support for the thousands of workers fighting for their wages and health care today.
I'll see you on the picket line.
-Joe |
