Press Release

AFL-CIO Joins Diverse Organizations in Signing Ferguson Letter

Letter Calls for the Administration to Address Systemic Racial Bias

(Washington, DC, Aug. 26, 2014) – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined a diverse group of organizations and leaders from all walks of life in signing onto a letter to President Obama calling for real solutions in the wake of the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  As the nation’s largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO believes that our nation must address issues of racial injustice in order to realize economic prosperity for all.

To read the letter please click here: http://plcylk.org/1tNIxrO

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