Rich Capitalists Have Been Running A Multi-Century Anti-Union Smear Job
February 17, 2018
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"This month, my hometown of Memphis honored the 50-year anniversary of a strike by hundreds of black sanitation workers who walked off their jobs and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to demand higher pay and a union.
Their strike became a historic moment in the civil rights movement. But the story of underpaid and mistreated Memphis workers joining together to demand change isn’t just a part of my city’s past — it’s a part of the present.
This Monday, cooks and cashiers like me in Memphis went on strike and protested to demand $15 an hour and union rights. We marched from Clayborn Temple to Memphis City Hall — the same path marched by the original sanitation strikers — to carry on the fight for higher pay and union rights that they started."*
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