Enough Is Enough

May 17, 2007

Whether it’s inspecting highways, plowing snow, directing traffic, driving buses, or designing roads and bridges, AFSCME transportation workers keep America moving. If only the Bush administration would see things the same way. Over the last few years, transportation workers across the country have endured corporate takeaways, shrunken paychecks and terminated pensions. The present administration, which has never met a job it didn’t want to privatize or send abroad, has sat idly by as corporations do what they please. It is time to tell the government and the privateers that enough is enough. In the spirit of solidarity with our sisters and brothers of the International Association of Machinists, thousands of union members and representatives will gather today at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for a “Transportation Day of Action.” Presidential candidates and labor leaders including President McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lucy will be speaking. AFSCME alone represents nearly 140,000 transportation workers. We have an opportunity to show them and thousands of others in the transportation sector our support. Let’s make sure their message is heard in the White House and in the halls of Congress.