Trent McNutt and Laura Jackson are hitting the streets and going door to door to make sure that candidates who will create real jobs are elected this fall—and they say every worker should join them because there’s too much at stake to stay home.
McNutt, an unemployed member of the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), and Jackson, a Communications Workers of America (CWA) member, told a press conference at the AFL-CIO yesterday that working people have a lot at stake in this election to stay at home.
McNutt lost his job last November when the company in Toledo, Ohio, where he had worked for 11 years went out of business. Now the married father of two young children has to make due working occasionally with a local contractor.
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