On Labor Day, A Working Families Party Strategy

[Omaha Steve]

http://inthesetimes.com/ittlist/entry/17130/this_labor_day_a_working_families_party_strategy




On May 5, at the launch of the Maryland Working Families, state director Charly Carter announces MD WF's slate of ten primary candidates—seven of whom went on to win their Democratic primaries. (Maryland Working Families)


MONDAY, SEP 1, 2014, 10:52 AM

BY JULIE KUSHNER AND RAFAEL NAVAR

“We stand for independent political action.”—UAW President Walter Reuther, 1946, calling for a new progressive-labor party

"The left-wing mouse that roared"—New York Times, 2013
, on the Working Families Party

The statistics you'll sometimes hear on Labor Day are true: dropping union density, stagnant wages, growing inequality, and the corporate stranglehold on democracy.


But they don't tell the whole story. There are also reasons for real optimism. This is a year that has seen low-wage workers step up with a new level of intensity, putting inequality front and center. The fast food workers' "$15 and a union" mantra has gone mainstream—and is bearing fruit in rising minimum wages across the nation.


FULL story at link.