Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond delivered remarks Friday morning at the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) National Educational Conference in Chicago.
APRI was founded by trade unionists and civil rights activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in 1965. As an active constituency group of the AFL-CIO, the organization advocates for social, political and economic justice for all working Americans, grounded in the belief that the fight for workers’ rights and civil rights are inseparable. Following a week of AFL-CIO nationwide tour bus stops at active picket lines in the Windy City, Secretary-Treasurer Redmond remarked about the road ahead.
“There’s a place for every working person on this bus,” said Redmond. “Everyone included. No one left behind. That is what this diverse, inclusive labor movement is all about: building worker power, by workers for workers. And together we can and will fight back against these attacks and chart a future for this country where our freedom, fairness and security is restored.”