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#RiseUpBeUnion – Continuing Martin Luther King’s Legacy VIDEO
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day we are releasing a video featuring union members talking about why unions are essential, how we’re standing in the way of the corporate elite and their well-funded political machine that want to take away our wages, job security, and benefits that we have fought for.
“Together we win, together we rise. As long as each member knows to do their part, talk to their friends and co-workers making sure everyone has signed a full membership card then we will be stronger and we will eventually win against Rauner and his friends,” Gwen Phillips, Cook County worker and union member.
WATCH UNION MEMBERS SPEAK NOW
We are in a moment of crisis. Janus v. AFSCME is a case currently before the Supreme Court that will be decided this year. It will impact the power of public employees to keep their health insurance, pensions, and other rights and benefits. It will affect our ability to deal with workplace issues such as working conditions, staffing, and unfair discipline. It is being pushed by Governor Rauner and corporate executives who want to weaken unions formed by public employees.
Local 73 is an organization where active members make a positive difference where they work and where they live. Whether you want to help make sure problems at work get solved or take action on the issues facing our communities, there are many opportunities to grow your leadership skills. The labor movement is continuing Martin Luther King’s legacy of equal opportunity for all. Sign up to learn how you can take an active role in Local 73.
In his December 11, 1961 speech to the AFL-CIO convention, Dr. King said, “By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them…the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature, spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.”