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NEWS & LETTERS, August-September 2004Rally in Chicago for Million Worker MarchChicago--Union workers and their supporters rallied on Aug. 9 in front of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, where the AFL-CIO Executive Council was meeting, behind a banner announcing the upcoming Million Worker March. ILWU Local 10 in San Francisco has called for workers to travel to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17 for a Million Worker March to press for universal health care, adequate wage and pension guarantees, opposition to NAFTA and other international agreements undermining working conditions in the U. S. and abroad, and other demands. Because AFL-CIO President John Sweeney used his position to send a letter to AFL-CIO locals directing them to steer clear of that campaign, rally participants urged delegates to "Fight for Workers, Join the Million Worker March." The AFL-CIO officers who are trying to silence everything but "Vote Kerry" between now and the election can’t claim with a straight face that merely dumping Bush would end corporate attacks on U. S. workers’ conditions of labor. The news that United Airlines is now attempting to slither out of its pension obligations and Delta Airlines keeps answering "not enough" to pilots offering massive concessions warns us of the readiness of companies to line up for their own takebacks. Labor solidarity has to be at least equal to the collusion among corporate interests. Some labor groups such as AFSCME District 37 in New York are beginning to endorse the Million Worker March and provide some trade union financing. But organizing is still largely being done by rank-and-file workers. --Bob McGuire For further information, contact chicagoworkermarch@yahoogroups.com in Chicago, or www.milliomworkermarch.org. For the Midwest Organizing Committee, call 773 913 6539. |
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