Vermont State Labor Council AFL-CIO issued the following announcement.
Over this past weekend, Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina joined other national progressive leaders like Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson, Teamster President Sean O'Brien, Senator Bernie Sanders and 4000 rank & file Union members from around the country at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.
Director Medina, a member of the UAW and past VT AFL-CIO Vice President from the United! slate, served on a workshop panel regarding how to progressively reform State and Central Labor Councils in order to build real Union Power within the AFL-CIO. The workshop was well attended with a number of Union members having to stand in order to make room. Ten AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils had members present for the workshop.
The historic task of revitalizing the AFL-CIO and the broader Labor Movement is not one that the Vermont AFL-CIO takes lightly. We know that in order to build the kind of Working Class Power required to foundationally change our country means that we must transform our labor bodies into fighting, rank & file driven, organizations. And to do this we must divorce ourselves from the failed strategies of old.
The Vermont AFL-CIO is pleased that thousands of Unionists were at Labor Notes, including a number of Vermonters (such as a delegation from UE Local 203). Together we know we can and must build a movement capable of advancing the rights of working people.
-VT AFL-CIO
To read the VT AFL-CIO platform, Ten Point Program For Union Power (also known as The Little Green Book), click on the following link: https://vt.aflcio.org/news/vermont-afl-cio-ten-point-program
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