Candidates Are Walking In Our Shoes

Our jobs might all be different, our homes might be in different places—but we all share a common bond—we work hard everyday to raise our families and provide services to our communities. We juggle work, child care, bills, PTA meetings, second jobs, caring for aging parents, soccer practice, and everything else we try to cram in from the time our alarm clock goes off in the morning to when we hit our pillows at night.

That’s why SEIU members are saying it doesn’t matter if you’re running for the State House or the White House—“Before you ask for my support, Walk a Day in My Shoes.”   Check out pictures of several candiates walking in SEIU members' shoes to earn our support in upcoming 2010 elections here. There are also videos of Andy Dillon, Virg Bernero, and Alma Wheeler Smith.

Walking A Day in Our Shoes means spending time at home and on the job with SEIU members, standing up for workers uniting to form unions to win a voice on the job, and listening to the concerns workers have about their lives and their children’s future.

Because if politicians experience firsthand what it’s like to work and raise a family today, then they can go back to the Mayor’s Office or the Senate floor and enact real change for working families.

Then maybe we can spend a little less time worrying about health care or our retirement and spend more time raising our families. Maybe we can quit that second job to be at more school concerts and basketball games. And maybe we can create a new American Dream to ensure our kids never have to face the same struggles we did.

To participate in a Walk-A-Day, call the Detroit Union Hall at (866) 734-8466 and speak to Jason Siller in the Government Affairs department.