AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Shuler on UAW strike: 'We're ready to fight'
A couple hours after presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) greeted United Auto Workers (UAW) members outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant on Sunday, workers got a visit from the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO.
“I told them, ‘I’m the other Liz,’” Liz Shuler told the Advance with a laugh during a phone interview Sunday evening, adding that Warren “made it clear that it was about the workers, not her.”
Several Democratic presidential contenders have expressed support for the strike, with U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (R-Ohio) also stopping by picket lines. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is slated to visit Wednesday.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is the umbrella group for 55 unions, including the UAW, for a total of 12.5 million members.
Read more: https://www.michiganadvance.com/2019/09/23/afl-cio-secretary-treasurer-shuler-on-uaw-strike-were-ready-to-fight/
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