Federal Workers and Community Groups Rally to Tell Senator McCaskill: “Don’t Cut Us a Raw Deal!”
Congress is engaging in very high-stakes negotiations to bring the budget into balance. Programs that American workers fought hard for, such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, are on the chopping block. And Congress is considering even more cuts to federal employees—freezing wages, cutting pensions and eliminating federal jobs.
More than 200 workers and community members united on Friday, June 27 to tell Missouri’s Senators they must protect Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and the wages and jobs of federal workers. Workers didn’t create our debt and budget problems, and we shouldn’t be asked to absorb all the pain. Check out the great video about the rally and the budget.
Sen. McCaskill met with a small group of workers and community leaders. While she didn’t make firm commitments, McCaskill agreed that we need to keep pressing on this looming threat to our jobs, health and retirement and she agreed to work with us.
Jobs with Justice and our allies are sending a clear message to Congress—we can’t fix the budget with cuts and caps, and we must raise revenues. It’s time to reverse the bush tax cuts for the rich and to make big corporations pay their fair share.
The rally and meeting were a collaboration of Missouri Jobs with Justice, American Federation of Government Employees, Paraquad, Missouri Health Care for All, Missouri Budget Project, Metropolitan Congregations United, GRO—Grass Roots Organizing and Missouri Pro-Vote.
