AFSCME Members Stand Together, Fight Back (THANK YOU ED SCHULTZ)

http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-members-stand-together-fight-back

by Jon Melegrito | June 20, 2012


Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC’s The Ed Show.


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PLA4F46A7377A9D0DD&v=O4Olu50Jxk0


LOS ANGELES — The importance of the fight for our nation’s public workers was the focus of a program on Tuesday highlighting AFSCME’s efforts to fight for collective bargaining, pensions, workers’ rights, and pushing back against budget cuts in states nationwide.

“Everyone knows unions are the last wall against the flood of corporate influence in government,” progressive talk radio and MSNBC host Ed Schultz said yesterday while emceeing the battleground program during AFSCME’s 40th International Convention. “You must keep up the fight!”

Schultz, the host of MSNBC’s The Ed Show introduced five AFSCME members who aren’t backing down.

Dean Farmer, a custodian in Londonderry, N.H., and president of Local 1801 (Council 93), said his union and community supporters stopped the Legislature from passing a right-to-work- for-less bill.

“This same fight is being waged in many, many states where workers remain in solidarity and are fighting back.”

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