2004-03-15 Show Us the Jobs Bus Tour

Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008 8:28 PM

Date: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:40 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

by Rob Sanchez
www.ZaZona.com

A bus tour will soon travel to eight states and 18 cities to highlight
parts of the country from small town America to large cities that have
been hardest hit by job loss. The tour will end in Washington, D.C. to
call on our nation_s leaders to make the jobs crisis their number one
priority, and to put America back to work at good jobs. As the tour
winds through these cities a spotlight will be focused on the
devastating impact of the nation_s deep jobs crisis.

Kickoff for the tour will begin in Mesa, Arizona on March 18, 2004 at
2:30 PM for a roundtable discussion on the national jobs crisis. CNN's
Lou Dobbs will cover this event as well as local TV and newspapers.

---------- Panelists ----------

The roundtable participants are as follows:

Dawn Teo
Rob Sanchez
Ruth Slater
Donna Bradley
Jason Bradley
Viktor Gunter
(two others TBD)

-------- Meeting Details --------

WHO: Dawn Teo, Show Us the Jobs Tour representative

for Arizona and founder of the Rescue American
Jobs Foundation at:
http://www.rescueamericanjobs.org/

Mark McGrath, Executive Director, AFL-CIO
Seven local workers who have lost their jobs

WHAT: Round-table discussion on jobs crisis in Arizona and

send-off for Dawn Teo, Representative of Show Us the Jobs Tour

WHEN: Thursday, March 18, 2004, 2:30 PM EST

WHERE: Iowa Cafi, 5606 E McKellips Rd. Mesa, AZ (480) 985-2022

------ Contact Info -------------

The bus tour is co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America, a new
national organization for workers.

Contact: Sarah Massey (202) 637-5018

Dawn Teo (480) 832-0335

The tour goes through the following cities:

St. Louis, MO
West Branch, IA
Des Moines, IA
Minneapolis, MN
Rochester, MN
La Crosse, WI
Manitowoc, WI
Milwaukee, WI
Greenville, MI
Detroit, MI
Toledo, OH
Cleveland, OH
Warren, OH
Youngstown, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Morgantown, WV
Harrisburg, PA
Washington, D.C.

----------- Why Arizona? -------------

Dawn Teo of the Rescue American Jobs Foundation is a recognized leader
in the fight to save American jobs. Dawn Teo's mission started in
Arizona but her organization is now national. Her contributions have
been recognized by labor leaders and media such as CNN/Lou Dobbs. What
better place to kickoff the tour than in Teo's home state?

Like many states, Arizona unemployment and jobless problems continue to
deteriorate. Many employers have had major layoffs including Motorola,
Honeywell, SpeedFam-IPEC, Microchip, Worldcom, Cigna, American Express,
Qwest, Asarco, Delta and Pine Land, and many of the universities. All
told, Arizona has lost 41,500 manufacturing and information services
jobs in the three years since President Bush took office, and the
number of long-term unemployed has increased significantly. Arizona
workers have suffered from several factors including NAFTA,
outsourcing, and the importation of foreign workers on H-1B and L-1
visa holders - and yet the local politicians such as John McCain
continue to support these destructive agreements. Local print and TV
media has been very supportive of guest-worker legislation and
free-trade agreements. Perhaps this event will jog the local media out
of their mania for these job destroyers and start reporting on the
realities of Arizona's loss of high paying jobs.

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