Until I received an email a little while ago from the AFL-CIO I was unaware of the pressure they have been placing on Wall Street investment companies to oppose Bush on Social Security Privatization.
Here is an exerpt from the email and a link to get involved in their action:
Yesterday the Financial Services Forum, made up of CEOs of big finance companies, dropped out of Compass, the group leading financial industry support for President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. Last week, as working family activists prepared to demonstrate outside its Kansas office, the investment firm of Waddell & Reed announced it left the pro-privatization Alliance for Worker Retirement Security. "The firm has a history of listening to its clients and being sympathetic and supportive of their issues. Please accept our withdrawal as such proof," John Sundeen Jr., the company's executive vice president, wrote to the AFL-CIO.
But Charles Schwab has refused to budge. Please take a minute now to tell Charles Schwab to end its support of Social Security privatization. Click here:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/schwab_action