Ur Union of Unemployedwww.unionofunemployed.com
Lost your job?Working fewer hours?Start a movement.
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)
• 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
UCubed Bridges The Political Disconnect
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
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
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)
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
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
UCubed GOTV Campaigns
“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
GOTV Ads
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
• 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
29.3 Million Jobless Americans Are Like
Nitroglycerin
Rick SloanIAM Communications Director &
UCubed Executive [email protected]
301.967.4520 (office)202.297.2941 (cell)
www.unionofunemployed.com
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