Trouble containing text+image in rollover action

so i have a rollover button that consists of a large image with a line of text at the bottom of it. I want the text to change color no matter where the mouse rolls over on the button (text or image). I’m using div tags but that is keeping everything in a separate little package that arent connecting to eachother- here is my code.

div.fillslot_01 {
position:absolute;
width:181px;
height:146px;
z-index:1;
left:6px;
top:186px;
}

div.fillslot_01 a.text {
position:absolute;
top:148px;
left:2px;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
padding-left:4px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-weight: bold;
width: 113px;
}

div.fillslot_01 a:hover {
color:#4f4e4e;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
}

<div class=“fillslot_01”>
<a href="#"><img src=“this is the image.jpg” alt="#" width=“181” height=“163” border=“0”/></a>
<a class=“text” href="#">This is the copy</a></div>

Any ideas?