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NYC'S Work-Bites Interviews Vermont Afl-Cio President David Van Deusen - We Build Power By Organizing And Rank & File Democracy!

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DAVID VAN DEUSEN | AFL-CIO PRESIDENT

DAVID VAN DEUSEN | AFL-CIO PRESIDENT

NYC'S WORK-BITES INTERVIEWS VERMONT AFL-CIO PRESIDENT DAVID VAN DEUSEN - WE BUILD POWER BY ORGANIZING AND RANK & FILE DEMOCRACY!

From Work-Bites:

“Here’s the thing — politicians aren’t gonna do the right thing because it’s the right thing — politicians aren’t gonna do the right thing because we put thousands of dollars into their campaign coffers or send some guy or some gal with a tie on to Washington and lobby for it,” he says. “Politicians are gonna do the right thing when they fear us. And they’re not gonna fear us until — like the 1930s — we’re able to have hundreds of thousands of people in the streets and shut down whole industries if need be. But without that fear, we’re playing a shell game...” 

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