Unemployed Workers Wanted For Congress Lobby Day

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

With two million jobless Americans facing an imminent and devastating loss of unemployment benefits, the AFL-CIO is seeking unemployed workers in the metro DC area to help lobby Congress next Wednesday. “Unless Congress reauthorizes the current program before it expires on November 30th, jobless benefits will be cut off for about 2 million workers by the end of December,” says the AFL-CIO. “Cutting off benefits would have a devastating impact on unemployed workers, their families, and the local retail businesses and communities that rely on consumer spending during the traditional holiday shopping season.” This is a good high-profile opportunity on a issue of vital importance to America's workers: the unemployed workers will attend a briefing at the AFL-CIO at 10A and then go to Capitol Hill for a press conference and lobbying visits with Senate and House leadership until 3:30P. Council affiliates are encouraged to email awright@dclaborarchives.org to submit names of members who wish to participate. PLUS: click here now to tell Congress to renew the federal unemployment insurance programs before they expire on November 30.