John Kerry offers a real alternative of hope for America 's working families with a program for job growth, health care reform and homeland security, says UFCW president Joe Hansen. In a statement issued at the Democratic Party Convention in Boston earlier this week, Joe Hansen says that Kerry's "energy and his record of personal commitment and sacrifice for the values of working America has excited and activated workers in every region, every occupation and every industry."
"Ask a grocery store worker who was forced to strike for more than 4 months to keep health care benefits whether there is difference? Bush has done nothing except protect the interests of the drug companies and the insurance giants while everyday thousands of workers lose benefits. John Kerry has always been a fighter for health care reform and has a plan that helps protect health care benefits at work", Joe Hansen says.
John Kerry's vision stands in stark contrast with record of the Bush Administration - more than 4 million workers have lost health insurance, real wages have gone down, millions of jobs have been lost, hundreds of thousands of workers have been needlessly injured because the ergonomic standard was repealed and millions face a pay cut because overtime law has been gutted. To say there is no difference between Bush and Kerry is to ignore the impact of Bush policies on the real lives of working families", the UFCW president adds.
Electing John Kerry will make the difference, Joe Hansen says
"On every issue, John Kerry offers a pro-worker, pro-family, pro-America alternative to the Bush Administration", Joe Hansen says. "Another Bush Administration would inflict more and more suffering on working families. The election of John Kerry is the starting point for a new American dream that embraces the workforce and meets the challenges of the 21st century. For workers, voting matters, and electing John Kerry will make the difference between going forward in prosperity and security, or falling backward in economic and national insecurity. John Kerry is our best hope for the future of working America ."
John Sweeney, president of AFL-CIO, shares Joe Hansen's views about a need for change. On 2 November, the nation's voters have a choice "between a president who ships our best jobs overseas and turns his back on the men and women who built the strongest democracy and most competitive economy in the history of the world, or a president who will fight for America's jobs," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the nearly 5,000 delegates to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday (29 July).
"That's our choice," Sweeney said. And in choosing the candidate who will honour "the decent hardworking people who are the backbone of this great nation, we choose John Kerry."
Posted by UFCW 227 at July 31, 2004 03:34 PM