Local labor leaders pledged to turn out 20,000 union members for the Workers Stand for America national rally to be held Saturday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Local organizers expect the national gathering to attract 30,000 union leaders, politicians and members from across the nation, with the intention of drawing attention to issues of middle-class and working-class people in advance of the national presidential conventions.
The organizers will ask politicians to sign a second "bill of rights" calling for the rights to full employment, full participation in the electoral process, to organize into unions at work, and to obtain quality education, health care, a secure retirement and unemployment insurance.
