September 26, 2008 (LPAC)--The New York City Central Labor Council organized an emergency protest Thursday on Wall Street. Hundreds of construction workers, auto workers, transit workers, machinists, teachers and government workers rallied against the Bush bailout plan. Their signs called for jail, rather than payments, for the financier swindlers. AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said, "The Bush administration wants us to pay the freight for a Wall Street bailout that does not even begin to address the roots of our crisis.... We must put working families first in line." Sweeney called for consequences for "the perpetrators of this disaster."

Jesse Jackson told the rally, "This is a Roosevelt moment. It's time for reconstruction of manufacturing law, trade law and banking transparency."