Teamster Member Tackles Corporate Dem in AD 15

LA Progressive
Sep 1, 2018 · 5 min read
Jovanka Beckles, a Teamster member, Richmond city councilor, and current state assembly candidate, in the Bay Area, speaking at rally with AFSCME-represented campus workers at UC-Berkeley.

As labor’s political betrayals have multiplied, at the hands of Democrats and Republicans alike, it has become an AFL-CIO mantra that union members should run for office themselves, to insure that workers have a reliable voice on local school boards, city councils, or state legislatures.

Official rhetoric on this subject is cheap and easy; running successful candidates is not. Even…

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