Join the local AFL-CIO to rally and march for good jobs and financial reform, downtown tomorrow. Details in the flyer after the jump...

Contact Information: Sylvia S. Woods, 577-7460, aflcioknoxville@bellsouth.net
Jim Sessions, Jobs with Justice, 573-0655, jim.sessions@comcast.net

Big Wall Street banks helped cause the worst economic crisis since the Great depression. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, homes and retirement savings. But the biggest Wall Street banks gave their execs $145 billion in pay and bonuses last year.

• Bank of America paid just one exec $29.9 million
Wall Street banks took billions in taxpayer bailouts to get back on their feet.

• Bank of America got $45 billion, now they’re spending millions lobbying to kill financial reform.

• Bank of America spent $3.7 million on lobbying last year

BANK OF AMERICA:

1. Stop refusing to pay your fair share to create the 11 million jobs America needs.

2. Stop fighting financial reform.

3. Start lending to your communities, small businesses and others starved for credit.

SOURCES: Company SEC filings, The New York Times, Center for Responsive Politics

Good Jobs Now: Make Wall Street Pay events led by the AFL-CIO are taking place across the country March 15-26. The AFL-CIO is calling for a major jobs plan to extend unemployment insurance benefits, food assistance and health benefits; rebuild our crumbling infrastructure; increase aid to state and local governments to people who need jobs with work that needs to be done; and use TARP money to get credit flowing to small businesses for job creation. Find out more at (link...).