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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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These are hard times for America's workers. Irresponsible public policies are redistributing wealth upward to a tiny percentage of wealthy Americans while cutting funding for health care, education and high-risk children. Soaring prices for energy, housing, medical care, and higher education are squeezing the middle class and dimming the American dream for low-wage working families.
As more and more American families feel the pinch, communities are struggling to provide the assistance so many of our neighbors need. One important way we can help is by contributing to the annual United Way campaign where we live and work. Though United Way-funded services are no substitute for a just and humane safety net of tax-supported human services, United Way helps fund a vital network of voluntary services for the elderly, the unemployed, disaster victims, and the physically and mentally disabled. These services are even more crucial in the face of declining public funding.
United Way has for many years partnered with CWA and the unions of the AFL-CIO. Both United Way of America and hundreds of local United Ways fund full-time AFL-CIO community services liaison staff and nonprofit labor agencies.
I'm proud to endorse the 2006 United Way Campaign and to encourage all members of CWA to contribute as generously as you can to support vital services for our members, their families and their neighbors.
In Solidarity,
Larry Cohen
President, CWA |
