Executive Council Calls for Strong Voting Rights Act Repair, Salutes VW Workers, Moves to Increase Young Workers' Voices
Monday, February 24, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)In statements adopted last
Wednesday at its annual winter
meeting in Houston, the AFL-CIO Executive
Council called for the restoration of
the Voting Rights Act that the U.S. Supreme
Court weakened in a 2013 decision,
vowed its continued support for Tennessee
Volkswagen (VW) workers and condemned
the actions of extremist politicians and
outside groups in the recent union
election, and set steps to involve more young
workers in all levels of the
AFL-CIO. Last Tuesday the Executive Council
adopted several policy statements
addressing wage growth and
economic inequality, job outsourcing, Fast
Track and trade, higher education
and performers' rights.