Speech
Shuler: Veterans Are Powerful Voices in Our Unions
… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks as prepared to the Union Veterans Council: Hi everyone, I’m Liz Shuler. President of the AFL-CIO. Thank you so much for joining us. The … hungry. To help make ends meet, started working at age 12, sandblasting tombstones. He signed up to join the Marine Corps right out of high school, and was deployed straight to Vietnam. When he returned, he faced the question most veterans do: now … economic power for working people. But more than that, we are a community. You’re seeing our solidarity on picket lines right now, all across the country. And when veterans have access to the solidarity and opportunities of the labor movement, …