Anti-war rally at AFL-CIO
Published Sep 29, 2005 9:03 PM
About 200 union members held a rally in the national AFL-CIO building in
Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24 and then marched as a contingent to the main
anti-war rally. Nancy Wolforth, a lesbian labor activist on the AFL-CIO’s
Executive Council, welcomed them to the building.
Wolforth, co-president
of Pride at Work, an official lesbian, gay, bi and trans constituent group
within the labor organization, is secretary treasurer of the Office and
Professional Employees International Union.
Fred Mason, president of the
Maryland and District of Columbia AFL-CIO, explained the role that labor should
play in building the anti-war movement.
Chris Silvera, chairperson of the
Teamsters National Black Caucus and an East Coast convener of the Million Worker
March, raised the need to strike against the war and discussed a call for
actions on Dec. 1-3.
Significant contingents participated from AFSCME DC
41 in Philadelphia, the Midwest district of UNITE HERE, and the Professional
Staff Congress, an AFT local that represents university teachers in New
York.
Many participants felt the rally, organized by US Labor Against the
War, would have been larger except for transportation problems that were
plaguing the day, and that the most significant fact about it was that it took
place in the AFL-CIO headquarters.
—Photo and story by G.
Dunkel
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