Bush to US Workers: Sink or Swim
Monday, February 6, 2006(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
"America’s workers are drowning in a perfect storm of job loss, skyrocketing health care costs and disappearing retirement security," said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney last week after the State of the Union address, “but President Bush failed to provide them so much as a raft.” Added Sweeney, “The president’s lofty rhetoric means little to working people who are struggling to survive in a climate that’s become increasingly hostile to them. The president had an opportunity to present America’s workers with a bold and aggressive plan to set our country on a new course. Sadly, it was yet another opportunity this president squandered.