Washington, D.C.--Today, nurses, janitors, security offices and other members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) challenged Wall Street CEOs and the Republican Senators standing with them to block Wall Street reform to walk a day in their shoes.

I want the Wall Street CEOs and the politicians putting the demands of the big banks over the needs of the American people to experience firsthand how Wall Street's recklessness continues to harm families like mine," said Al Marshall, a city employee in Oakland, California who lost his house after the market crashed. He and the rest of the city employees in Oakland and across the country continue to take pay cuts and furlough days to keep their cities afloat.

Al is one of more than 10,000 Americans converging on Wall Street banks this week to demand the big banks stop fighting reform and start putting the millions of Americans without jobs back to work, help the 1 in every 8 families in default or foreclosure keep their homes, and save states and cities from bankruptcy. And he'll be joining thousands more in Washington, D.C. next month to take on politicians standing with Wall Street.

"Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Scott Brown, and the rest of the Wall Street defenders should have to live the life of an unemployed worker. They should have to live with a family forced to sleep in their car after losing the home they saved a lifetime for," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "By experiencing the destruction they've caused firsthand, maybe Wall Street CEOs and their Republican defenders will spend less time fighting the demands of the American people and more time figuring out ways to put people back to work and rebuild our economy."

SEIU members launched the Walk a Day in My Shoes program in 2007 to ensure candidates and lawmakers understood the challenges workers face in working and raising a family in today's economy. President Obama, Vice President Biden, and dozens of Senate, gubernatorial, and state and local candidates have participated.

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