This week’s edition of the St. Louis Labor Tribune has a story covering last Sunday’s Solidarity Rally, U.S. Reps. Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rev up crowd at UAW Local 2250 rally...
‘RED FLAG’
“When executives can afford yachts and multiple vacation homes, yet their workers struggle to afford to pay for housing – that’s a red flag and it’s time for a change,” said Bush, whose father was a union meat cutter. “Now that’s a simple concept to me. When workers who build the Chevy Colorado cannot afford to buy a Chevy Colorado, that’s a red flag.”
Representative Bush was followed by Region 4 Director Brandon Campbell and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
‘ECONOMIC CRISIS OF INEQUALITY’
“What the figures in Washington and Wall Street don’t reflect is that in a time of record profits, the CEOs of the Big 3 are giving themselves 40 percent raises and billions of dollars to manipulate stock prices off your back-breaking labor,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The reality is we are absolutely living in an economic crisis of inequality.”
UAW Region 4 Region 4 Director Brandon Campbell said members of UAW have always been champions for social and economic justice.
(picture courtesy of the St. Louis Labor Tribune)
