AFL-CIO blasts Bush on Katrina

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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/12570940.htm

AFL-CIO blasts Bush on Katrina

Sweeney says slow response indicates administration's sign of hostility to workers

LOS ANGELES - AFL-CIO President John Sweeney derided the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina at a Labor Day rally Monday, saying the government's slow response was a sign of hostility to workers.

Speaking to more than 1,000 cheering teachers, firefighters and nurses at a Los Angeles intersection, Sweeney argued that cuts in government services and taxes had sapped the administration's ability to react to the crisis.

"We really need look no further than the ravaged cities of the Gulf Coast... to see what can happen when government is underfunded, unprepared and unresponsive," Sweeney said. "And the old, the young, the sick and the poor... are paying an awful, awful price."

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"This administration has been very callous," he said. "And the slow reaction to the (hurricane)... is an indication of their shortsightedness and lack of focus on workers and their families."

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1. They can get back to me...

when the national strike is organized and they have everyone signed on to shut the country down until the Bush Administration is forced to step down.

Talk is cheap, I want to see some actual teamster "politics" in the old tradition.

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2. Now that I would love to see,,,old-fashioned demonstrating to fix things!

I think that if they worked together, the unions could still shut down this country until things are made right. Sure they have lost a lot of power over the years, but maybe helping set things right would empower many union members and set them back on the road they were on before the Pukes set about dismantling the unions.

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3. On September 24th have Union Members march with the rest

of us.

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4. You and I have exactly the same thoughts on this

Where the hell is the Union when it comes to saving America? They are as AWOL as Bush* was.