American Water Company's Greed Exposed Today
Thursday, June 9, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
As part of a national week of action to hold the American Water
Company accountable for “steep employee cuts and consumer rate hikes,” area
union members and community allies will rally outside the nation’s largest
for-profit water utility this morning in Alexandria,
Virginia. “Despite doling out lucrative pay packages to top
executives, American Water is also trying to impose abrupt rate hikes on
consumers across the nation,” say organizers, which include the Utility
Workers Union of America, the AFL-CIO and SEIU Local 32BJ. “From coast to
coast, working people are standing together on behalf of consumers to demand
that shared sacrifice begin at the top and to stop the nationwide assault on
workers and consumers by American Water.” Demonstrators will meet at the King
Street Metro station at 10:45A; click
here for details.