Executive Council Statement
Affirmative Action
… Hollywood, Fla. In their 2001 resolution “One Nation, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All,” delegates to the AFL-CIO’s 24th Constitutional Convention reiterated the labor movement’s decades-long support for affirmative action, a program that has worked well and continues to work well to promote diversity, prevent ongoing discrimination and remedy past discrimination. As a result of affirmative … in employment and other arenas of American life.” We also promised to “defend affirmative action from attacks by the far right, especially since we recognize these attacks are often cynical ploys designed to create a wedge issue to divide …