District 6 President Jerry Nowadzky is among 51 American workers traveling by bus across eight states to put a human face on the nation’s soaring unemployment numbers.

Iowa Machinist Joins Nationwide Jobs Tour
IAM District 6 President Jerry Nowadzky is among 51 American workers traveling by bus across eight states to put a human face on the nation’s soaring unemployment numbers. The workers, each with a story to tell, are part of the “Show Us the Jobs” tour, organized by the AFL-CIO.

At grim events held in the shadow of idled factories and shuttered shops, Nowadzky and his fellow bus riders talk bluntly about how joblessness has affected them, their families and their communities. “It feels like you’ve been kicked in the gut,” said Nowadzky, who was furloughed from successive jobs at Goss Graphics and Square D, when the companies shut down their facilities in Iowa and moved overseas.

From the start of the tour in St. Louis, MO, the buses rolled north through Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota before turning east and stopping at cities in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. The tour is scheduled to arrive in Washington, DC on March 31 after events in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. “It’s been a long week and a lot of miles,” said Nowadzky, who also helped organize the IAM’s week-long “Wall of Shame” tour honoring jobless workers in Iowa and Nebraska.

Click http://www.showusthejobs.com for more information about the tour and to sign an online petition calling for an end to government policies that encourage companies to move US jobs overseas.