Tag: Union workers
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Update: Trumka’s transcript
This is a transcript of my post a week ago on AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka speech on Racism and Obama. “You see brothers and sisters, there’s not a single good reason for any worker — especially any union member — to vote against Barack Obama. There’s only one really bad reason to vote against him: because…
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Unions workers & Obama
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama From David Moberg in The Nation magazine: On a rainy afternoon in early September, Jeff Ampey, a member of the Communications Workers union, knocked on the door of Frances Brady’s home in Galesburg, part of the historically conservative “Dutch Triangle” in southwest Michigan. He was walking through the…