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DALLAS — “In the face of high unemployment, our unions need to lead a fight for a massive government-funded public works program to put millions to work at union-scale wages building hospitals, schools, affordable housing and more,” Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council District 1, told Rodrigo Gurrola here Feb. 1.
“I got laid off two months ago from a job in the oil fields near Midland,” Gurrola said. “I was working 12-hour days, six days a week and now I am not getting any unemployment.”
The SWP platform calls for cutting the workweek with no cut in pay to spread around the available work. And for every worker to get unemployment benefits for as long as they need it. A fight around these demands would help overcome divisions between workers in and out of work, and put working people in a better position to organize the unions we need.