The AFL-CIO has revealed, following its “Wage Summit” held in Washington earlier this week, that the labor federation is going to use the issue of wages to drive politics in the upcoming presidential primary season.
via politico.com.
AFL-CIO LAUNCHES WAGE CAMPAIGN IN KEY PRIMARY STATES — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said at yesterday’s wage summit that the AFL-CIO will host four additional wage summits in the first four presidential primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. “Each Summit will bring together diverse voices, just as we did today, to lay out the entire Raising Wages platform and establish state-based standards of accountability,” Trumka said. The first will be in Iowa this spring.
The AFL-CIO’s launching a campaign about wages for an ulterior motive (in this case politics) seems to be a page ripped straight from the SEIU’s playbook (see Fast-Food Campaign).
The question yet to be answered is: How many will fall for it?
