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Attention All Union Members,
"Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, like Republican governors in so many states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, and Florida, talks about how he will lead the continuing attacks on Unions in this country should he get elected."
"Republicans want to further erode workers rights and are doing everything possible to eliminate middle class families and the ability of workers to earn a decent living. The millionaires and billionaires running/ruining this country can never get enough, and will continue to destroy this country as we once knew it.”
“We cannot allow the GOP and the Tea Party to take us back to a time when we had no workers rights. We have these laws for a reason; corporations and now governments cannot be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to workers rights. It has been proven in the past which is the reason the last generation felt these laws needed to be implemented in the first place.”
Op-ed on labor organizing as a civil right
In the United States, worker rights and civil rights have a deep and historic connection. What is slavery, after all, if not the abuse of worker rights taken to its ultimate extreme? A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, recognized this link and, as early as the 1920s, spoke passionately about the need for a black-labor alliance. Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, Randolph’s protégé and an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., joined his mentor as a forceful, early advocate for a black-labor coalition. 
The very title of the famous 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” conceived by Randolph and organized by Rustin, reflected their black-labor perspective. Two years later, they founded the A. Philip Randolph Institute, to solidify the black-labor alliance.
With prodding from Randolph, the AFL-CIO came to recognize the deep connection between labor rights and civil rights. The civil rights movement has moved similarly, acknowledging organized labor as by far its strongest ally. In 1961, King spoke to this, declaring that “Negroes are almost entirely a working people. Our needs are identical with labor’s needs: decent wages, fair working conditions, quality education and healthcare. That is why blacks support labor’s demands and fight laws that curb labor.”
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