Should
the Labor Movement Support Hillary?
Featured speakers:
Genevieve Morse
Shop Steward
and Executive Board member Mass Teachers Association - CSU*;
Socialist Alternative
Cameron Bateman
Labor
Rep, Mass Nurses Association*
And more
TBA!
The US labor movement is in deep turmoil. The defeats
in Wisconsin, Michigan and other former hotbeds of industrial unionism show that
a new way is needed in leading the fight back for the organized working
class.
In unions around the country, the question of who to support in
the presidential elections is being hotly debated. Many union
leaderships are pushing for endorsing Hillary Clinton, a known Wall Street
lackey and former Wal-Mart board member, against the wishes of the
rank-and-filers supporting insurrectionary candidate Bernie
Sanders.
The recent decision by one of the biggest unions in the
US to support Hillary, an opponent of the $15 an hour minimum wage, over
Sanders, a huge $15 supporter whose biggest campaign donors are almost all from
organized labor, has caused a massive uproar of discontent among the
rank-and-file.
Come out and discuss with several union leaders
about the need for labor to come out against support for HIllary Clinton and how
union democracy can be restored to help rebuild a fighting labor movement.
When we fight, we win!
(*Personal
Capacity)
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