MEIDAS Swings Through the South & Midwest With AFL-CIO!!!
Calls out Trump cuts to vets & worker safety and union busting at Wells Fargo
By AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond
Last week I had an incredible journey with the diverse and growing labor movement across the south.
We kicked off our swing with the United Steelworkers and Virginia AFL-CIO to expose Trump and Republican’s devastating cuts to workers’ safety and veterans' services in Newport News, Virginia.
In Charlotte, North Carolina we joined the 116th NAACP Convention where civil rights and labor leaders spoke out together for freedom and security. And then we met up with President Claude Cummings in exposed union-busting at Wells Fargo with new Communications Workers of America (CWA) members who are demanding a fair contract including marching into Wells Fargo’s headquarters to deliver petition signatures.
Next we stopped in South Carolina to address the state's annual convention and call out the right for every worker in the south to have the freedom to join a union and then my last stop this week was with labor and faith leaders in Memphis, TN.
But the only thing better than a bus tour is having a second bus!
In the Midwest, our second bus hit the road in Michigan, joining Ironworkers in Ann Arbor to talk about registered Apprenticeships that are the gold standard for job training - but the Trump admin has threatened investments in these programs.
And then we hosted an event with UAW members in Warren, where workers called out the Trump administration’s cuts to our essential services are hurting working people in Michigan and across the country.
This is just the beginning. We’re meeting workers where they are—on jobsites, in contract fights, and in union halls across the country—to build power and put politicians who bow to billionaires on notice. We hope to see you on the road this week with our stops in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Kentucky.
This is fantastic!!!! Go Meidas!!!! You guys ROCK!!!!!
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