--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Obama will accept nomination in suit made by union members
> To: "Lbo-Talk at Lbo-Talk. Org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>, "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>, "Progressive Economics" <pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu>
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 2:13 PM
> [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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