AFL-CIO, Jesse Jackson to demand jobs, justice October 29

From our comrades at pww.org:

Gulf Coast union leaders hailed an action campaign launched by the AFL-CIO Sept. 30 to defend workers' wages and rebuild their hurricane-torn states while turning the nation in a new direction that puts "people before profits."
Julie Cherry, assistant to Louis Reine, secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, said the labor movement will stage a rally on the Capitol steps in Baton Rouge on Oct. 29 to press the campaign's demands, outlined in a statement, "America Needs a New Direction: Good Jobs, Stronger Communities and a Just Economy." Speakers will include AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition President Jesse Jackson and leaders of the NAACP.
"The demand will be fairness in rebuilding Louisiana and the Gulf Coast," Cherry continued. "It is abominable that Bush would suspend the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage act, take people in their darkest hour and crush them down a little lower. Louisiana is already at the low end of the wage scale and they would push us down even more."
Rebuilding, she said, "fortunately, or unfortunately, will be an opportunity to make money. We just want to make sure it is done fairly, that people who lost so much get jobs rebuilding at decent wages."

Oddly enough, there is nothing in there about the single biggest impediment to higher wages: cheap foreign labor flooding into the city. Maybe they'll learn they can't have it both ways before it's too late.