AFL-CIO

Some 25 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work—and wages essentially are flat.

Americans are crying out for jobs—but Republicans in Congress aren’t listening. Instead of addressing our jobs crisis when they took over the House of Representatives, they abused voters’ trust—dragging America through the mud with a manufactured debt ceiling “crisis.” They even shut down the FAA, holding 90,000 jobs hostage.

Did you know that—according to our records—it's likely that you live near the office of at least one Republican member of Congress who is also a millionaire? Republicans in Congress say they want to create jobs—and they ran for office on job creation promises. But they refuse to do the one thing that will make job creation possible while reducing our long-term debt: asking the wealthy to pay their fair share to fund job-creating investments.

Join us this Friday at noon as we ask millionaires in Congress to do their part as lawmakers—and as millionaires—to fund job-creating investments.

Your millionaire lawmaker gets a six-figure salary and has a benefit package that would be the envy of every working and unemployed American. But he or she may pay a lower tax rate than you and most middle-class Americans. And get this: he or she gets to vote on the tax rates millionaires pay.

This Friday at noon, please join America’s unions and our friends at MoveOn.org. Come with us to the office of a millionaire member of Congress near you as we deliver a strong, clear message: “America wants to work. And millionaires like you should pay your fair share to get America back on track.”

Click here to find the office location of the GOP millionaire in your area—and drop by at noon local time on Friday.

With your help, we’ll set straight the millionaires who’d rather play political parlor games than deal with our jobs crisis.

Just showing up Friday at noon is enough to send a strong message. But if you have résumés for unemployed workers or anything else that symbolizes the jobs crises, please bring them to drop off. You could bring things like unpaid tuition bills, bank overdraft statements, mortgage or utility bills or shut-off notices.

Click here to look up where to go, and drop by at noon local time on Friday.

To fix our jobs crisis and pay for it, the people with the most have to pay their fair share. As President Obama recently said:

“Either we ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share in taxes or we ask seniors to pay more for Medicare. We can’t afford to do both....This is not class warfare; it’s math.”

President Obama has called on Congress to pass the American Jobs Act without delay to put America back to work. And he’s proposed that we pay for it by requiring millionaires, billionaires and profitable corporations to pay their fair share.

Show up Friday and tell the millionaire lawmaker near you it’s time to help create jobs—and we can pay for it by requiring the rich to pay their fair share.

Millionaires in Congress need to chip in to help create jobs. It’s fair. It’s patriotic. And it’s the right thing to do. Thank you for standing for fairness and job creation.

In Solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

P.S. If you show up on Friday, please reply to this message with photos. You also can tweet about it by using the hashtag #want2work.
According to our records, it's likely you live near the office of one of the 136 Republican millionaires currently serving in the U.S. Congress.

Can you drop by on Friday? Showing up is the most important thing. Bring résumés of unemployed workers if you can—or anything symbolizing the jobs crisis, like unpaid tuition bills, bank overdraft statements, mortgage or utility bills or shut-off notices.