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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-18-07 12:52 AM
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55. Edwards, Miller Honored at AFL-CIO Organizing Summit
Last night, the AFL-CIO Organizing Summit took a break from strategy sessions to honor two men who have been stalwarts in the fight for workers’ rights: Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and former Sen. John Edwards. The two received the Paul Wellstone Award, named in honor of the late senator from Minnesota, which the AFL-CIO established to highlight elected leaders who take a strong stand for workers’ freedom to form unions and who fight for social and economic justice.

For summit participants, this was a good chance to unwind, relax and get to know other organizers. During the hour-long reception before the dinner, hundreds of us talked about organizing and what has been happening at the summit, which ends today.

Luella McQueen, an AFSCME member from Jacksonsville, Fla., said the summit should have been even larger than the more than 600 organizers who are here:

We need to bring more people to these kinds of meetings. It’s been very interesting. We ought to get those volunteers who walked door-to-door, not just the leaders and top organizers. There’s still a lot to be done and we need everybody to be a part of it.

Full article: http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/12/09/edwards-miller-honored-at-afl-cio-organizing-summit/

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