Be “Disrupters”

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sfpelosi ?@sfpelosi 5m
Love that both @NancyPelosi + @AFSCME Prez Saunders … urged grads to be #disruptors today!
http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-president-urges-students-to-be-disrupters

State College, Pa. – AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders encouraged Penn State University students to be “disrupters” and join the labor movement if they want to make a difference today, much like the sanitation workers of AFSCME Local 1733 did in 1968 . . .

Saunders said the sanitation workers were risk-takers whose bold strike “upset the social order” and challenged the status quo. He also talked about the labor movement’s role as the last line of defense for people who are beset by student-loan debt, low wages, disappearing retirement security and other financial pressures. He reminded the audience of the labor movement’s achievements and said unions are the key to an economy that works for everyone.

Unions are more important than ever at a time when there is a tremendous gap between the very wealthy and the average working family, he said . . .

There is another problem with tremendous income inequality, he said. “When so much wealth and power rests with so few people, they exercise outsize influence on our political system, drowning out other voices. They rig the system.”

Unions are the answer, he said, because they “play a role in lifting up all workers whether or not they’re in unions . . . “Learn about and become part of the American labor movement,” he said. “Be a disrupter, just like the sanitation workers of Memphis were in 1968.”


read: http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-president-urges-students-to-be-disrupters

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sfpelosi ?@sfpelosi 26m
“My wish is that you will be #disruptors when necessary and that you enjoy every moment of it”-@NancyPelosi #CalGrad

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1. Good for them!

Two hours is a bit long for me, I didn't get too far on that YT video, to be honest...but I appreciate the sentiments provided by the speakers..!