Labor & Employment Law

Share Your Job Crisis Story, Connect with Activists at Our New Good Jobs Now! Site

By Mike Hall

Good Jobs Now!, the AFL-CIO’s new interactive website, gives workers, people who have lost their jobs and activists a chance to take action, share their stories, find resources and, most importantly, be part of a grassroots movement to help the nation climb out of its 10-million jobs hole created by the recession.

Just launched this morning, Good Jobs Now’s! first featured action is a petition calling on Whirlpool Corp., to reverse its decision to close its Evansville, Ind., plant and send work to Mexico, eliminating 1,100 good jobs.

As the AFL-CIO’s Good Jobs Now! mobilization heats up in the coming weeks, you will be able to find events in your area so you can join the growing movement demanding that lawmakers focus on job creation and hold corporations like Whirlpool and big Wall Street banks accountable for their economic damage.

To help build and connect a community of job activists, the new site gives workers, employed and jobless, the opportunity to share their stories, photos and videos of how the job crisis has affected them, their families and communities, as well as ideas about the best ways to solve the job crisis and help rebuild the middle class. You also can read and comment on the stories.

Good Jobs Now! also includes a video section on rallies, marches and other jobs action, including a video from a Sacramento jobs rally earlier this month and several with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka discussing vital economic issues. There is also a section with the latest on jobs rallies from the field.

There are downloadable tools for activists and union leaders, including information on ways to help families hit by the jobs crisis, developing infrastructure jobs and putting people back to work. Good Jobs Now! features a detailed look at the AFL-CIO’s five-point national jobs agenda and the federation’s detailed state jobs agenda.

You will find links to other important jobs sites, including the AFL-CIO’s and Working America’s Unemployment Lifeline, the Machinists’ new UCubed website, Union Plus’ Union Safe Layoff Assistance for Union Members and the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs.

Go ahead and check it out, let your friends and co-workers know and let’s all come together to solve the job crisis.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).