Occupy Austin gains following with local labor unions (story & video)

[Omaha Steve]

http://austin.ynn.com/content/headlines/281073/occupy-austin-gains-following-with-local-labor-unions

The Occupy Austin movements continued in front of City Hall Sunday with fresh faces joining the march.

Dozens of unions, including mail carriers and iron workers, took to the streets in Downtown Austin in a show of solidarity with the Occupy movement.

Ben Brenneman, a union electrician, is one of the newest faces at the nearly month long Occupy Austin Movement.

"Once they drove the economy over a cliff the money just wasn't there for loans and other things that you need to keep construction working,” he said. “"I would like to see all the unions in Austin come together to get good work back in this town to get good middle class jobs for everyone. We know that the price of food is going up, the price of gas is going up but the paychecks aren't going up."

The group marched through Downtown to the Merryll Lynch Building on Congress Avenue.

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