AFL-CIO Executive Council Elects Holt-Baker, Approves Political Mobilization Plans

The AFL-CIO Executive Council today unanimously elected Arlene Holt-Baker as AFL-CIO executive vice president, making her the first African American woman in one of the federation’s three top offices. Holt-Baker, the daughter of a domestic worker and laborer in Fort Worth, Texas, brings 30 years of experience as a union and grassroots organizer and political activist to the post.

Holt-Baker replaces Linda Chavez-Thompson, who served the labor movement for 40 years and announced her retirement earlier this month.

The council, meeting in Washington, D.C., also approved plans for the AFL-CIO’s political and membership mobilization program, Labor 2008. Labor 2008 will be the largest political mobilization ever undertaken by the union movement.

Holt-Baker, who as a teenager got her first job in programs established through President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” initiative, began her union career with AFSCME.

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huge labor movement in this country. I want to show unity like never seen before. I really want to see some group mobilize every working taxpayer in this country to stand up to Bush's dismanteling of this country.
It is this year or NEVER, if anything is going to change.
I hope Holt-Baker is true to her grassroots upbringing and has her plans in order for this election year, & has the forsight needed to give this country back to the American worker, in policy and priviledge. The Coorporations have money, power and it will not be easy to stop their influence in our government.

"Labor 2008 will be the largest political mobilization ever undertaken by the union movement."