MLK Day March for Jobs and Public Services
Join us in celebrating Dr. King’s legacy of struggling for social justice and defending workers’ needs.
CTA management is threatening to lay off over 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers on Feb 7th. This means fewer and more crowded buses and trains.
Chicago Public Schools plan to close another 25 to 30 neighborhood schools and hand over our public education money to private companies. This won’t help educate our kids.
Unemployment is at its highest in 30 years but caseworkers who approve Food Stamps and Medicaid have unworkable caseloads of 1100 to 2200 families per worker – so people can’t get the help they need.
The rich and their politicians steal our taxes to bail out Wall Street and they “borrow” from our pension funds to hand out contracts to their friends. They sell our publicly-owned resources to private companies, and then make us pay for it through higher fees and fines. We say: make the rich pay. They made this crisis; we’re not giving up our jobs and services to pay for it.
Join PUBLIC WORKERS UNITE! to defend our public services
We say not on our backs! Fund public services, not the wars!
Money for jobs, not for bankers! Tax the rich, not working people!
List of endorsers: AFSCME Local 2858, Caucus of Rank File Educators (CORE), International Socialist Organization, Jobs with Justice, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, NoCTAcuts.org, Socialist Alternative, Solidarity.
To endorse or for more information, contact publicworkersunite@yahoo.com
PUBLIC WORKERS UNITE! next meeting: 10am Jan. 23, UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago
