Unions Respond to Devastating Montana Floods

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/06/21/unions-respond-to-devastating-montana-floods/

AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer reports on the flood relief efforts unions are mounting in Montana.

Montana has been hit hard by a series of recent severe storms coupled with runoff from mountain snow melt. The combination has caused serious flooding across the state. Forty-eight of the state’s 56 counties have declared flood emergencies and federal disaster declarations have been issued for 31 counties, plus four American Indian reservations.

The central Montana town of Roundup has been completely submerged in floodwaters. In northeast Montana, there is massive flooding in the town of Glasgow. The Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana has been devastated by floodwaters displacing hundreds from their homes, and forcing more than 50 families to live in a gymnasium.

The Montana State AFL-CIO is working with coalition partners Montana Organizing Project, Forward Montana, along with central labor councils and union members throughout the state to coordinate a response effort to bring supplies to those in need and protect homes and other public buildings from water damage.

FULL story at link.

[Scuba]

1. Meanwhile, House Republicans said they would approve disaster relief...

...only if the Democrats agreed to give a couple more fortunes to Big Oil and kill any alternative fuel programs. Oh, and stand on one foot while saying "pretty please with sugar on it".