March through the financial district

As part of a national campaign to rein in Wall Street, the Chicago Federation of Labor held a march and rally to target Chicago’s banks. Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the financial district as part of the AFL-CIO's Good Jobs Now/Make Wall Street Pay campaign.

 

Big Wall Street banks brought on America’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. While their actions destroyed American’s jobs, homes and hope, the Big Banks got billions in taxpayer bailouts -- and went back to business as usual. They gave their execs about $145 billion in 2009 pay and bonuses, and now they’re spending millions lobbying to kill financial reform.

America is 10 million jobs in the hole.

 

It’s time for Wall Street to pay to create the good jobs we need. Join us to take this message to some of the biggest, baddest banks of all.

 

Click here for more on the “Make Wall Street Pay” campaign.