[A-List] Black labor and elections

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

Back in September 1972 Lucy ? then and now Secretary-Treasurer of
AFSCME, the public employees union ? joined with four other Black labor
leaders to found the CBTU. They were outraged that AFL-CIO President
George Meany had all but ensured the re-election of Richard Nixon by
failing to back Democratic challenger George McGovern.  Meany?s
insistence on labor ?neutrality? in the race ? a position arrived at
without consultation with African American unionists ? would ?almost
certainly result in four more years of favored treatment for the rich
and powerful; continued unemployment; frozen wages; high prices;
appointment of additional members of the U.S. Supreme Court who are
conservative and insensitive to the rights of workers, minorities, and
the poor; more repression and restriction of civil liberties; and the
reversal or total neglect of civil rights," the CBTU founders warned. 

Full at http://www.blackcommentator.com/74/74_cover_cbtu.html