An urgent e-mail from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is urging activists to tell their U.S. senators to oppose the cynically named JOBS Act, which some members are rushing through to deregulate Wall Street. Trumka says senators instead should support amendments that would make the bill less harmful to working families.

The bill, which could pass as early as Monday, encourages speculation and will destroy jobs by reducing investor confidence in small companies, Trumka says. The amendments to the bill in the INVEST in America Act of 2012, sponsored by Sens. Jack Reed, Mary Landrieu and Carl Levin, would reduce the JOBS Act’s damage to investors, pension funds and the U.S. economy.  It’s time for Congress to set aside the politics of the 1%, the old game of special favors for Wall Street, and turn to the business of real job creation, Trumka says.

Please urge your senators to oppose the JOBS Act and support the amendments in the INVEST in America Act. Click here now.