Labor Photos: Worker Activists on Capitol Hill Fight Calls for Cuts

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Hundreds of union members, retirees, and unemployed workers from across the country hit Capitol Hill yesterday to call on Congress to protect the middle class. Activists delivered holiday coal (below left) to Speaker Boehner (R, Ohio) for attempting to cut programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. - photos courtesy SEIU (left) and AFL-CIO (right)