Unions Protest Bush Scheme in SEVENTY cities yesterday (surprise!)

Did any of our cable pals notice this? Maybe if they'd rallied in front of a hospice :freak:

March 31—From New York to San Francisco, New Hampshire to San Antonio, thousands of working families and community activists carried signs proclaiming “Don’t Pick Our Pockets To Line Yours,” as they rallied in more than 70 cities at the offices of Wall Street firms demanding Charles Schwab Corp., Wachovia Corp. and others stop pushing the privatization of Social Security.



“I believe I speak for the majority of American workers when I say, ‘Mr. Bush, leave my Social Security alone!’” said Reda Johnson, a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546 who rallied at a Charles Schwab office in Chicago. “Don’t give my Social Security benefits away to your friends on Wall Street. I’ve worked hard for that money for years, and when I’m ready to retire I want it back!”

The union movement’s March 31 National Day of Action for Retirement Security is the largest grassroots mobilization yet in the working families’ campaign to defeat President George W. Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security.

“It’s not right for corporations such as Wachovia to advise the public and the government over something that they will make a profit on,” said Joe Turner, a retired member of the Machinists who marched in front of the bank’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/socialsecurity/ns03312005.cfm


Friday, April 1, 2005

AFL-CIO urges banks not to support Bush's Social Security plan
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Sweeney, speaking to a lunchtime crowd chanting "Don't personalize Social Security" and "Shame on Schwab," told his listeners: "Our message is this: Don't try to pick our pockets so you can line yours."

Sweeney and some 200 demonstrators then crossed K Street, home for major lobbying and law firms, to repeat their chants in front of a Wachovia branch. The company, based in Charlotte, N.C., is the nation's third-largest full-service brokerage firm and the fourth-largest bank.

"We want Schwab and Wachovia and Wall Street to know they will not get away with it," he said. "We're going to put private accounts right where they belong: in the Dumpster of our democracy."

Speaking earlier as he marched in front of the Schwab office, Sweeney said the 70-city rally was "an indication of how the average American is concerned about what this administration is trying to do. They want to cut the guts out of Social Security."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/218420_labor01.html

Are numbered - nah, we'll just have another "surprise" attack by low-tech cave dwellers who hate our freedom. Anything to distract public attention when Chimpy's in trouble.

And no -- did not see it covered in local or national press. :-(

Found this dandy photo of union people in 1937. Yay, union folks!
:woohoo:

to Bush's lies and bull$hit in bigger numbers I think. That's a great thing, the more vocal and opposed people are the better.