Via The Hill:
The nation’s largest labor federation intends to ramp up their efforts targeting presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
The AFL-CIO has been an outspoken opponent of Romney’s policies for months, but on Monday the federation promised to increase its protests against the former Massachusetts governor and Wisconsin congressman regarding their stances on Medicare and tax cuts.
“Up to now we have had working families outside all of Romney’s events protesting his outsourcing policies at Bain,” according to an AFL-CIO statement. “We’re now going to expand that message to incorporate Ryan and the plan to end Medicare . . . What Romney and Bain did to middle class families and companies, Romney [and] Ryan want to do to all Americans with their plan to end Medicare.”
According to the statement, “tens of millions” of Americans would lose their health insurance or become underinsured under Ryan’s budget plan. Medicaid would also be gutted and “investments in education and infrastructure would be slashed.”
The AFL-CIO also plans to stage protests at Ryan’s solo campaign events in the coming days, but have had to pivot quickly after Sunday’s announcement that Romney and Ryan will hit the campaign trail separately leading up to the Republican National Convention later this month.