Black Labor Leaders Vow to Heal Democratic Party

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wilmingtonjournal.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=15813&sID=3

by Chris King
Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American
Originally posted 5/30/2008

ST. LOUIS (NNPA) - The American labor movement has unequivocally vowed to heal any division in the Democratic Party.

It made the promise at the opening session of the 37th International Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists held last week in Downtown St. Louis.

The senior leadership of the CBTU, the senior leadership of St. Louis Labor and executive leaders from the AFL-CIO and many other powerful international unions all spoke as one, vowing to register voters, mobilize voters and educate constituents to defeat the Republican Party Nov. 4.

Whether local to St. Louis or international, whether Black or White - more than a dozen senior level labor leaders all dismissed any divisions in the Democratic Party and challenged the rank and file to actively work to elect a democratic U.S. president.
“You can take a break after November,” said William (Bill) Lucy, beloved president of CBTU.

Other labor leaders who spoke in unison with Lucy include: Arlene Holt-Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO and the highest-ranking minority in the American labor movement; Henry Nicholas, international vice president of AFSME;
Robert Soutier, president of the St. Louis Labor Council; Gerald Feldhouse, executive secretary of the Building and Construction Trades Council of St. Louis; and Hugh McVey, president of the Missouri AFL-CIO.

Though everyone referred to all their colleagues of brother and sister regardless of race, it is worth noting that Soutier, Feldhouse and McVey are White labor leaders - indeed three of the most powerful labor leaders in heavily unionized St. Louis.

FULL story at link.

[mac2]

1. They tore it apart with Obama but 13% of the population can't do it.

They need the vast middle, white voters.