AFL-CIO Working Families to Rally at McCain DC Fundraiser

Media Advisory for Tues. April 8
Contact: Steve Smith 202-637-5018

AFL-CIO Working Families to Rally at McCain DC Fundraiser
to Press McCain on Jobs, Trade
Dozens will gather to highlight Sen. McCain’s Support of Failed Bush
Economic Policies, including Colombian Trade Pact

On Tuesday, April 8 at 5:15 p.m., dozens of AFL-CIO working families
will  gather outside a high-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain to
highlight  his support of President Bush’s failed economic agenda,
including flawed  trade deals like the one Bush is proposing this week
with Colombia.  As part  of the AFL-CIO’s national  “McCain
Revealed” campaign, DC workers will call  on McCain to stand up to the
corporate interests that are pushing trade  deals which hurt America’s
workers and exacerbate workers’ and human rights  abuses abroad.

Workers affiliated with Metro DC Labor Council will gather in front of
the  Willard Hotel prior to Sen. McCain’s fundraising reception -
which costs a  minimum of $1,000 to attend - to demand that he withdraw
support for trade  deals that have led to the loss of millions of
middle-class supporting  manufacturing jobs and hurt workers here and
abroad.  Tomorrow, President  Bush is expected to send Congress a
free-trade agreement with Colombia,  despite the Colombian
government’s miserable record on human rights’ abuses  with
regard to trade unionists. 

WHO:     AFL-CIO working families      

WHAT:   Demonstration Outside McCain Fundraiser

WHEN:   Tuesday, April 8 at 5:15 pm

WHERE: Outside the Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington,  DC

“McCain Revealed,” is an AFL-CIO national campaign to expose Sen.
John  McCain's economic record and plans to continue the failed Bush
economic  agenda, and to generate public pressure on him to support
policies that  advance their interests. To learn more, go to
www.mccainrevealed.org.

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