On September 20th Richard Hathaway (ABCFT Treasurer) , Ruben Mancillas (ABCFT Ex. Vice President) , and myself (Ray Gaer ABCFT President) attended the bi-annual Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Congress. Over 130+ unions from all over the Los Angeles County participated in this gathering and filled a giant union hall to listen to motivating speakers on the state of labor in California.
A majority of the speakers focused on the brutal attack tactic being used by big business to push the deceitful Proposition 32. Make sure you tell everyone you know how undemocratic and unAmerican this proposition is for the all Californians and potentially against Americans across the country. What will happen to the United State if California, the 13th largest economy in the world silences the voice of the working class....tyranny. Make sure you are informed and that you tell all of your friends and families to stop the corporate power grab.
A major highlight was an inspiring speech by Richard Trumka the President of the AFL-CIO.
Here's his speech at the National Democratic Convention:
At the end of the day the delegates of the convention walked across the street to a picket line in front of a construction site where a "rat" construction company was using non-union "scabs" to build and regardless of the intense heat many of the convention delegates picked up a sign an marched in front of this construction site and hollered union pride songs. Last Thursday was a great UNION DAY.
In Solidarity,
Ray
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