NYC Marchers Want an Economy ‘for All Working People’
On a brisk and sunny day in New York City, Christy Thornton stood at the corner of Broadway and 31st streets.
I’m the AFL-CIO’s speechwriter and a former newspaper reporter and magazine writer and editor. I’ve reported and written on a wide variety of topics, from business and city government to crime and politics. In my working life, I’ve been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the UAW and now the Communications Workers of America (CWA). My wife and two kids and I live in Maryland, but we are and always will be from Montana.
On a brisk and sunny day in New York City, Christy Thornton stood at the corner of Broadway and 31st streets.
Bill Redler of Omaha, Neb., knows both the hard times of the American construction worker today and the right way forward.
Terry Maile’s supervisor called her into a conference room with all of her co-workers to hear the news: It was their last day of employment at Level 3 Communications in Pittsburgh.
More from Alabama, where a delegation of African American labor and civil rights leaders is investigating the state’s recently passed anti-immigrant law. Follow the delegation here.
A grade school child is there one day and gone the next. Dependable laborers don’t show up to pick crops on a farm.
More from Alabama, where a delegation of African American labor and civil rights leaders is investigating the state’s recently passed anti-immigrant law. Follow the delegation here.
DREAMer activist Victor Palafox took a delegation of national labor leaders and community and faith activists on a tour of a trailer park in Pelham, Ala., about 15 minutes from Birmingham, to give them a taste of how Alabama’s H.B. 56, which is one of the most punishing anti-immigrant state laws in America, hurts typical working people.
More from Alabama, where a delegation of African American labor and civil rights leaders is investigating the state’s recently passed anti-immigrant law. Follow the delegation here.
Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law instantly intimidated the nine Latino employees of Max’s Delicatessen, owned by Steve Dubrinsky, who says:
They are good solid people, and I don’t like how they feel right now.
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