You might have seen them in Marietta Monday, AFL-CIO labor union members protesting high gas prices.

Close to 25 mine workers, educators and brick layers spoke out about how they're being affected by these prices and offered some possible solutions.

"Rank and file members, they can't afford to do this. They can't afford to put gas in the car to get to work," said Sam Davis, business manager for Parkersburg and Marietta Building Trades.

Davis said it's not just the workers who are having a hard time.

"Our companies, our contractors, can't afford the gas it takes to run the equipment and everything to get some of these jobs done. So as it keeps getting higher and higher we're going to get less and less jobs, less and less work. There's going to be less and less buildings because people can't afford to do the work," he said.

Workers also see some possible solutions.

"There's a lot of clean coal technologies out there that should be explored for alternative energy purposes and we think that would go a long way in alleviating our dependency on foreign oil," said Babe Erdos of the United Mine Workers.

Davis suggested building more refineries in the U.S.

"The local guys here who have a lot of oil wells and i used to work for some people putting in jack pumps and stuff like that and they're not able to sell their oil at that kind of price. They got a lot of tanks out there that's full of oil and they can't get rid of it," said Davis.

This was one of ten rallies in Ohio that's part of the AFL-CIO's education effort for the working class leading up to November's election.