Labor & Employment Law

Time for a Contract for Main Street

By James Parks

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United (NNU), writes at the  Huffington Post about how the struggles in the Midwest and around the country have exposed the fact that there are two Americas: one where the rich get bailouts and bonuses and the rest of us get our benefits slashed and gutted.

That?s why it?s time for a Main Street Contract for the American People, she says, one that ensures jobs at living wages, affordable education, guaranteed health care for all and a secure retirement, among other things.

If it sounds like the Second Bill of Rights envisioned by President Franklin Roosevelt, that’s just a reminder of how far we as a nation still have to go, how far our democracy has been hijacked and corrupted, and how imbalanced our priorities have become.

The American people, not Wall Street, deserve their own economic renewal package. It’s time to reclaim our country. And we will.

Read the entire column, “Bargaining for the USA: Time for a Main Street Contract for the American People,” here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).