[Pen-l] Obama will accept nomination in suit made by union members

["Sean Andrews" <cultstud76@xxxxxxxxx>]

[sure, it's a paltry symbolic gesture, but at least he's paying
attention to these symbols...-s]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elana-levin/obama-will-accept-nominat_b_122143.html

Obama will accept nomination in suit made by union members

Tonight, the world will watch as Obama accepts the Democratic Party's
nomination and he'll do it in a union made suit. Today everyone will
learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew-- that if you bother to
buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too---and by
that I mean union made. You can find out where to get your own
union-made clothes on the UNITE HERE website. And no, American Apparel
isn't union made.

I know you've heard it before, buying union made matters because only
in a unionized workplace can employees have the chance to negotiate
with their bosses on equal footing so they can have family and
community sustaining jobs. Unions invented the middle class and the
country cannot survive as a democracy without a stable middle class.
But in the face of a Republican party that has never met a worker they
didn't want to sell out to a megacorp we need to hold our leaders
accountable: do they wear their values or do they wear sweat-shop
threads?
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