Worker Solidarity

This call to action can be found on Operation 2012.

Of the 45 million Americans who have no health insurance over 10 million of them are children. The inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage is 26 percent lower today than it was in 1979. Since 2000, a net 394,000 private-sector jobs have been lost and leaving nearly 8 million workers unemployed. Those that have kept their job are working longer hours for less pay. Today we have witnessed the biggest government rollback of overtime pay rights since passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1938. Meanwhile the Bush administration has ushered in tax-cuts that benefit America’s wealthiest families. Operation 2012 calls upon the AFL-CIO Executive Council and Change to Win to call for all 13 million members to walk off the job in protest of the greatest government deficit in U.S. history. Its time we demanded greater accountability from our elected officials and forced the government to listen to the voice of the American working class. Support the Operation 2012 petition to call for a national worker walk out.