Labor & Employment Law

Workers Say Obama/Trumka Labor Day Visit Will Energize Voters

By Mike Hall

Milwaukee AFT Local 2169 member Ashleigh Lund says she hopes that President Obama?s Labor Day appearance with AFL-CIO President AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the annual Laborfest

can spur people to get to the voting booths in support of worker friendly candidates this November?I am excited because this shows me that the rights of workers are still important to Obama.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will Join Obama and Trumka the Milwaukee Area Labor Council?s Laborfest that draws thousands of working families. Fellow AFT Local 2169 member Sagar Tolani says that

Obama spending his Labor Day with people from the community really lets me know that he understands the issues workers are currently facing.

Milwaukee is just one stop on a busy Labor Day weekend schedule for Trumka and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker will travel to Ohio, Michigan, Florida and California calling for good jobs and a strong, middle class economy and boosting Labor 2010?s get-out-the-vote efforts for November?s midterm elections.

Sunday, Trumka will join Ohio Gov. Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) at the Lorain Labor Day Festival near Cleveland. Shuler will take part in Labor in the Pulpit services in Los Angeles while Holt Baker will join worshippers in North Miami Lakes, Fla.

On Labor Day Shuler will attend the Los Angeles County Labor Federation?s Labor Day breakfast before heading to Sacramento, where she will be joined gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown at the at the Sacramento Central Labor Council?s picnic. Later she will take part in the Alameda Central Labor Council?s Labor Day barbeque in Oakland.

Holt Baker will be in Detroit Monday for the Motor City?s 50,000-strong Labor Day Parade.

Karen Hickey, Wisconsin AFL-CIO political field communications assistant, contributed to this report.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).