HRC at SEIU: 'Stand Firmly' With Unions
Hillary Clinton offered a strong endorsement Wednesday of the labor movement’s guiding principles at a time when some in the movement have expressed a measure of impatience with her unwillingness to commit to a position on trade.
“We have to stand firmly together and united on behalf of your right to organize, your right to bargain collectively, your right to fight for the higher wages that reflect the value of your work,” she said at the Centers for New Horizons’s Effie O. Ellis Center in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.
Clinton’s comments came during a conversation with working parents, childcare workers and union officials hosted by the SEIU. The SEIU, like other major labor groups, is opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but the issue didn’t come up during Clinton’s opening remarks at the event, the only part that was open to the press. The remainder of the conversation was intended to be a private conversation for union members and the presidential candidate.
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