Unions pledge walkoffs, job actions to support 'Black Lives Matter' before election
Labor leaders said they would organize walkouts for teachers, autoworkers, truck drivers and clerical staff, lasting as long as needed.
By Frank Miles | Fox News
Unions representing millions of workers, from teachers to truck drivers, pledged to ramp up protests in the leadup to the presidential election, with walkouts aimed at forcing local and federal lawmakers to pass police reform and address what they described as systemic racism.
In a statement first shared with The Associated Press on Saturday, labor leaders from America's biggest public and private sector unions said they would organize walkouts for teachers, autoworkers, truck drivers and clerical staff, among others.
“The status quo — of police killing Black people, of armed white nationalists killing demonstrators, of millions sick and increasingly desperate — is clearly unjust, and it cannot continue,†says the statement from several branches of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, and affiliates of the National Education Association.
AFSCME, SEIU, and NEA include liberal membership that typically votes Democrat by margins as high as 80%.
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