Statement of Building and Construction Trades Department President Mark H. Ayers on the July 2011 Jobs Report
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's jobs report released by the U.S. Department of Labor is simply the latest piece of evidence that we are a nation in desperate need of a sustained and credible effort to create American jobs, especially in the construction industry where the unemployment rate in July was 13.6 percent.
And the dismal performance of the stock market represents a double whammy for American workers, who must now suffer the indignity of watching their retirement portfolios evaporate before their eyes as they also seek to find meaningful and sustained employment. The three major stock indexes have in recent days erased ALL OF THEIR GAINS FOR 2011.
The question that weighs heavily on the minds of the members of America's Building Trades Unions, and of American workers in general, is quite simple: Where are the Leaders?
The Building and Construction Trades Department is an alliance of 13 national and international unions that collectively represent over 2 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada.
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