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Ur Union of Unemployed unionofunemployed

Lost your job? Working fewer hours? Start a movement. Ur Union of Unemployed www.unionofunemployed.com. The Decline: Geography of a Recession. Unemployment rate by county, 12-month average (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) Over ten million pageviews Featured on CNN & ABC. (click).

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Ur Union of Unemployed unionofunemployed

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  1. Lost your job? Working fewer hours?Start a movement. Ur Union of Unemployed www.unionofunemployed.com

  2. The Decline: Geography of a Recession • Unemployment rate by county, 12-month average (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) • Over ten million pageviews • Featured on CNN & ABC (click)

  3. UCubed Bridges The Political Disconnect • Community service project of IAM aimed at getting America back to work • An online community designed to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way • Enables jobless to become “jobs activists” and together effect real change • Reflects what jobless are thinking

  4. Take Control • UCubed is built from the ground up • Cube leaders and job activists decide how the concept evolves • It is, after all… Ur of Union of Unemployed

  5. Build a Community Create a cube and recruit a group of jobs activists by zip code… 1 Cube = 6 Activists 9 Cubes = Neighborhood 3 Neighborhoods = Power Block

  6. UCubed Resources • Tips on writing a resume • How to navigate tough job market • Skills assessment • Creating a budget • Finding, creating and communicating with cubes • Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

  7. Hire US, America! • Hire US, America • A 21-point emergency action plan for getting America back to work • Created by UCubed members • Only real jobs agenda brought forward since start of Great Recession • Demands policies that discourage the outsourcing of American jobs, create a national industrial policy, create a Works Progress Administration-style jobs program, etc. Over 65,000 emails to Congress & White House

  8. 25,000 JOBS Activists • 4,409 members • 868 cube leaders • 18,000 FB fans • Over 60,000 unique visitors each month • 1.2 million Facebook post views a month

  9. UCubed GOTV Campaigns GOTV Ads “Our Turn”(click) Increased voter turnout by 15-25% in S. Carolina & Penn counties covered by cable TV buys • “Bite Back”(click) • Over 16,000 views on internet and an estimated 20,000 additional views during UCubed’s Unemployed Pre-Event to the One Nation 10.2.10 March on Washington

  10. Facebook Ad Campaigns UCubed released a map reflecting ongoing GOP attacks against the unemployed Showed states currently pushing bills to reduce jobless benefits, subject the unemployed to drug tests, etc. Action Alert: Send your state legislators & governor a letter demanding they cease their attacks on America's unemployed

  11. 29.3 Million Jobless Americans Are Like Nitroglycerin • 50-46 split, nationally • Nitroglycerin is a highly explosive mixture • Slightest jolt or friction can produce a spontaneous detonation • Creates a supersonic shockwave and a rapid expansion of gases

  12. www.unionofunemployed.com Rick Sloan IAM Communications Director & UCubed Executive Director rsloan@iamaw.org 301.967.4520 (office) 202.297.2941 (cell)

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