Faye Liebermann, CWA, on the Kentucky Governors Race

[Omaha Steve]

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Faye Liebermann says:

Ernie Fletcher needs to go. He’s not a friend to working people at all.

That’s why Liebermann (see video), her brothers and sisters from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and hundreds of other Kentucky union members are pledging their time and efforts to elect Steve Beshear (D) governor this fall.

Labor 2007’s mobilization to elect Beshear, along with lieutenant governor candidate state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, is picking up speed as local unions around the Bluegrass State gear up to toss out the incumbent Fletcher. During his tenure, he has worked with his corporate cronies to try to slash wages by attempting to gut prevailing wage laws and attacked workers’ rights through his campaign to outlaw union security clauses and turn Kentucky into a “right to work” for less state.

Says Larry Roberts, state director of the Kentucky Building and Construction Trades Council:

Ernie Fletcher is vehemently opposed to the interests of working people. He actively tries to attack and reduce collective bargaining every way he can—from supporting so-called right to work to attacking union security clauses. In fact, his whole agenda is to support policies that encourage low-wage strategies to ensure that only low paying jobs are created. Four more years of Ernie Fletcher would be devastating to the construction industry and to the labor movement. Many of our members are retiring, there is a boom in construction, yet Ernie Fletcher wants to do everything he can to prevent these jobs from doing good middle-class work.

Liebermann says CWA locals are fully onboard with the Labor 2007 program.

More here: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/08/22/word-from-kentucky-gov-ernie-fletcher-needs-to-go/

[GreenArrow]

1. Fletcher does need to go

But Beshear ain't gonna be a damn sight better.

[NoodleBoy]

2. why?

[RedStateShame]

3. Amen to that.

So, do you think Kentuckians will ever have that head-slapping moment when we realize Gatewood Galbraith could have been our governor?

[GreenArrow]

4. I wish I were hopeful about that

but I'm not.