Join sign-on campaign in support of HR 1000!!
Jobs for All Campaign
Sign-on Letter in Support of Rep. John Conyers’ Jobs
Legislation (HR 1000)
Dear Friends,
US Representative John Conyers has reintroduced jobs
legislation HR 1000. It is the most significant jobs creation bill in recent
times. The “Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment & Training Act”
is a comprehensive and innovative federal and local government job creation and
training bill that would create millions of new jobs for the nation’s
unemployed. It targets the long-term unemployed and poor communities that are
being left behind. The bill will be funded by a financial transactions tax on
stocks and bonds.
We are very exited by the legislation and its potential role
in mobilizing a larger movement for jobs. Below is the sign-on letter in
support of HR 1000, We are seeking organizational and individual endorsements.
Our goal is to have as many local, state and national organizations as possible
endorse the bill over the next several months. This effort is key in making job
creation by the federal government a national priority. Please forward
this e-mail to key contacts with a note of your support.
Let us know of any endorsements you are able to secure. Thanks.
Let us know of any endorsements you are able to secure. Thanks.
For Jobs and Peace,
Logan Martinez
Outreach Coordinator
The National Jobs for All Coalition / Jobs for All Campaign
Email: loganmartinez2u [at] yahoo.com
Please click here H.R.1000 for the
complete text, summary and cosponsors for the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment
and Training Act.
Jobs for All Campaign
Quality Jobs with a Living Wage and a Voice in the Workplace
Dear Member of Congress,
We are writing on behalf of the members of our organizations
urging you to cosponsor and pass into law Representative John Conyers’ bill,
H.R. 1000, the Humphrey Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and
Training Act. This legislation would create a national public jobs program
to complement job creation by the private sector. Ultimately, it would ensure
full employment, so that every American seeking work would have a job.
We're facing a severe jobs crisis. The economy is
consistently failing to create sufficient new jobs to sustain the struggling
recovery. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported the Seasonally Adjusted
Unemployment Rate was 7.5% in April. While 12 million Americans are
"officially" unemployed, millions of others have given up looking for
work entirely. More than 17 million Americans are currently unemployed, and
millions more remain underemployed. 4.6 million Americans have been unemployed
for more than six months, and more than 3 million have been out of work for at
least a year.
Economists, as well as religious, civil society, political,
and other leaders from across the political spectrum agree: Creating jobs is
preferable to providing government assistance. Persistent joblessness
devastates families, communities, and our economy, drives up our deficit, and
weakens our nation. The Humphrey Hawkins Act would solve this crisis.
Philip Harvey, Professor of Law and Economics at the Rutgers
School of Law, estimates The Humphrey Hawkins Act would provide
resources to businesses, states and localities to directly create 3.1 to 6.2
million jobs, and 1 to 2 million additional jobs indirectly within two years.
The National Full Employment and Training Trust Fund—supported by a modest levy
on financial transactions—would finance creation of these new jobs.
New jobs would provide opportunity and security to millions
of Americans who would also benefit from improved infrastructure including
newer, safer, and better roads, dams, bridges, community facilities, schools,
libraries, parks, and more. New hires would quickly begin work improving and
repairing our dangerously distressed infrastructure, providing child and elder
care, offering job training and other education. Communities could hire more
police, first responders, teachers, and similar public servants.
We the undersigned strongly urge you to cosponsor H.R. 1000
and to work with your colleagues in Congress to pass this jobs-creating
legislation into law as a top priority.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Endorsers [list in formation]
Coalition of Labor Union Women
President Tanaka Charles (AFSCME)
Memphis Workers' Center
Workers Interfaith Network
Alfredo Pena, Executive Director
Greater Charleston AFL-CIO Central Labor Council
Erin McKee, President
Dee R. Wernette, Ph.D.
Chicago Activist Researcher
Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger
Carolyn Pittman, Executive Director
Pastor Robert E. Jones
College Hill Community Church
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Dayton, Ohio
Community Organizing Center
Columbus, OH
Mark D. Stansbery
Arkansas Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
Arkansas Interfaith Alliance.
Rev. Steve Copley
South Eastern Michigan Jobs With Justice
Jobs Committee, Kae Halonen
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Miami, FL; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA
Detroit, MI; Albuquerque, NM; Oakland, CA;
New Orleans, LA; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; &
Philadelphia, PA.
Britton Loftin, National Policy Coordinator
Demos
Benjamin P. Peck
, Senior Legislative and Policy Associate
Chris Tilly
Professor, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
New York City Council Progressive Caucus
Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director
National Jobs for All Coalition
Trudy Goldberg, Chair
Chicago Political Economy Group
Bill Barclay
U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW)
Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator
Frank Stricker, Emeritus Professor of History and Labor
Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills,
Organize! Ohio
Larry Bresler
Green For All
Kimberly Freeman Brown, DC Office Chief
Rimson Development Corp (Detroit)
James C Clark, CEO
Association of UW Professionals (AFT Local 3535)
Bryan Kennedy, Ph.D. President, AFT-Wisconsin
Boston Democratic Socialists of America
Mike Pattberg, Boston DSA Exec Board
People's Empowerment Coalition of Ohio
Lynn Williams
Coalition for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ)
Jesse Arms San Francisco, CA - Belleville,
IL
Advocacy and Education Committee
(Community Action Partnership) Dayton, OH
Carole L. Grimes, Chairwoman
Miami Valley Full Employment Council
Tiki Kai-Krismano, Exec Board
George Friday
North Carolina Activist
For more info on HR 1000, visit:
www.PutAmericaToWork.net
