[lbo-talk] Obama will accept nomination in suit made by union members

Sean Andrews cultstud76 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 12:13:55 PDT 2008


[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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