Newly elected UAW leaders join labor and community supporters in a march against Wall Street

DETROIT – Bob King, elected UAW president by delegates today at the UAW’s 35th Constitutional Convention, will lead members and other UAW officers along with community and labor supporters in a downtown Detroit march Thursday, June 17, at 2:30 p.m.

The activists will demand that Wall Street pay for the damaging recession it caused by paying its fair share to create the 11 million jobs America needs, by ceasing its opposition to financial reform and by making loans available to homeowners to stop foreclosures, to communities, small businesses and other entities starved of credit.“Good Jobs Now” is a campaign launched by the AFL-CIO and affiliated unions aimed at big Wall Street banks that wrecked the American economy and killed American jobs – then took $700 billion in taxpayer bailouts, choked off credit, handed out massive executive bonuses and hired an army of lobbyists to fight financial reform.

The march, to be held at the conclusion of the union’s convention, will be King’s first action after he is sworn in as UAW president.

Also participating in the march: UAW Secretary-Treasurer-elect Dennis Williams, UAW Vice Presidents-elect Joe Ashton and Cindy Estrada, current UAW Vice Presidents General Holiefield and Jimmy Settles; and Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous, and the Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony.

WHO: Bob King, UAW president-elect and the UAW International Executive Board 
    James P. Hoffa, general president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
    Ben Jealous, president and CEO, NAACP
    The Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, president, Detroit Branch NAACP

WHAT: Demonstration for good jobs and investment in America.

WHEN: Thursday, June 17, 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Jefferson Avenue at Washington Street, downtown Detroit.