A Message from Joe Rugola
Over the last fifteen months, Ohio AFL-CIO President Joe Rugola, Secretary Treasurer Petee Talley and the Ohio AFL-CIO Executive Board have led the most comprehensive and extensive member mobilization and education program the Ohio labor movement has ever seen. We set out 15 months ago to run an eighty-eight county statewide campaign, and now we are on the brink of victory. We will win key Congressional and State House races, along with the Presidency for Barack Obama. Click here to see a November 3rd message from Joe Rugola.
President Rugola also undertook a truly exceptional personal effort this fall. He decided to draw attention to the suffering of laid-off Ohio workers by traveling over 300 miles on foot to shut-down factories and jobsites where mass lay-offs have recently occurred. We’ve lost over 180,000 jobs in Ohio in the last eight years, and Pres. Rugola’s epic walk has done a lot to promote awareness of how hard we’ve been hit, and how desperately we need a new direction. As he says in his video message to union activists today, “I want to encourage everybody to get out there in the next twenty-four hours, do whatever you have to do. Let’s just work it as if our lives depended on it, because they do.”
Check out Pres. Rugola’s message below:
Previous coverage of Pres. Rugola's "Road to Recovery" Walk:
October 9: http://labor2008.typepad.com/oh/2008/10/ohio-afl-cio-pr.html
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