Executive Council Statement
Senator John Kerry for President
… election of 2004 may be the most important in our lifetimes, and the unions of the AFL-CIO are unified in our commitment to elect a president who will stand with and for working families. Instead of moving forward toward an America of promise and … workers can afford nor employer-funded pension benefits that will provide a secure retirement after a lifetime of work. The result is that while the yachts of the wealthy and giant corporations are being lifted by a rising economic tide, … service in Vietnam, even despite misgivings about the conduct of that war. He showed us what the words, “my country, right or wrong,” really mean when he repeatedly offered his own life to save the lives of the men under his command. He …