UPDATE: From this morning’s Village Voice:
This morning the UAW — the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America — issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem “a movement for economic and political justice.” They’ve said they’ll commit resources to the movement and also activate their membership nationally “in support of reclaiming the American economy on behalf of working men and women, the poor, the elderly, the unemployed and our nation’s youth.” UAW members have already been showing solidarity at Occupy Wall Street protests and rallies in New York and in Boston on an individual level; this announcement puts the full support of another union behind the protesters at Zuccotti Park.
After the nation’s top union boss gave his tacit endorsement to the neo-coms camped in Zuchotti Park on Friday, more and more unions are jumping on board with endorsing the anti-free market movement.
Here are the latest left-wing unions to endorse the occupation:
Several top unions Tuesday threw their support behind protests on Wall Street and across the nation demanding U.S. social and economic policy change.
The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, the Communications Workers of America and the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union all issued statements supporting the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders called the protests a “Main Street Movement” and said “Priority # 1 should be rebuilding Main Street, not fueling the power of corporate CEOs and their marionette politicians.”
You can read the rest here.
Related posts:
- Laborers’ Union Boss Embraces Marxist #OccupyWallSt Movement…
- …And, So It Begins: Unions & Professional Left To Join #OccupyWallSt Protesters
- Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders Loves Him Some #OccupyWallSt & #OccupyDC
- Meet #OccupyWallSt’s @JeffRae: Professional Rabble Rouser, Agitator, Organizer & Labor Activist
- A Weekend Roundup of News On #OccupyWallSt, The Neo-Communist Revolution
