AFL-CIO Delegates: Making America Work for Working People
Delegates to the AFL-CIO Convention have been heading to Pittsburgh all weekend. In talking with them, it becomes clear that while they seek to accomplish many different things, they are united in one goal: Making America work for working people. Here are some of their voices. (For video clips of each of the delegates below, visit the AFL-CIO Convention online video page.)
AFL-CIO Convention delegate Petee Talley, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio AFL-CIO and proud AFSCME member, is excited to be in Pittsburgh for the convention.
We have lots of issues that the labor movement is looking at, we certainly know that we need to get health care reform passed and then right after that we will be working for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. I’m going to be attending several conferences while I’m here, state and local strategies, which is where we know the heart and soul of the labor movement is—working on the ground in our cities and in states across the country to try to implement our activism and get our activists involved so that we can see really good legislation that’s going to impact working families.
