{"id":4162,"date":"2008-09-05T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2008-09-05T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:46:05","slug":"women-of-steel-to-mccain-palin-wrong-choice-for-working-women-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"Women of Steel to McCain: Palin wrong choice for working women, families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RELEASES \/ ADVISORIES  |  September 03, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usw.org\/media_center\/releases_advisories?id=0077\"><strong>Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; The United Steelworkers (USW) Women of Steel today sent a open letter to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain expressing disappointment in his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>The letter praises McCain for again putting a woman on the presidential ticket. Geraldine Ferraro was the Democrat nominee for vice president in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You chose a female as your running mate, and we applaud your contribution to the progress this represents,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Unfortunately, you chose the wrong woman for the wrong job. Governor Palin is a working mother whose achievements should be respected &#8211; but due respect for a budding political career doesn&#8217;t mean she is ready to be vice president &#8211; a heart beat away from the presidency. Nor does it change the fact that she&#8217;s not the best candidate to improve the lives of women and working families in this country.<\/p>\n<p>The letter points out that Palin does little to change McCain&#8217;s anti-worker, anti-woman agenda that, among other things, opposes giving workers the right to join a union and bargain collectively; erodes the ability of working families to secure quality health care by taxing their employer -provided coverage for both active and retired workers, and does nothing to protect or expand family leave or make it paid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.usw.org\/action_center\/WOSPalinLetter\/openlettertomccain-palin.pdf\">Click here (.pdf)<\/a> to view the letter in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The USW&#8217;s Women of Steel are dedicated to increasing working women&#8217;s activism through the sharing of information and networking. The goal is to impact issues affecting all working women and their families, and to recognize women&#8217;s leadership development and involvement at work and in the community. Women of Steel are employed in a diverse cross-section of industries including health care, manufacturing and public service.<\/p>\n<p>The USW represents 850,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada employed in the industries of metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining and mining. For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usw.org\/\">www.usw.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELEASES \/ ADVISORIES | September 03, 2008 Pittsburgh &#8211; The United Steelworkers (USW) Women of Steel today sent a open letter to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain expressing disappointment in his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-158","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}