Edwards, Obama Walk with Striking Workers in Chicago

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/08/06/edwards-obama-walk-with-striking-workers-in-chicago/

by Seth Michaels, Aug 6, 2007

Some presidential candidates actually walk the walk—in this case, literally. Before he headed to the presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention of progressive bloggers in Chicago this weekend, former Sen. John Edwards took time to walk the picket line with employees at the Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama joined the picket line in July, telling workers that if he’s elected president, they’re “going to have a friend in the White House who believes that workers can organize.”

The hotel’s housekeepers, dishwashers and other employees have been on strike for four years because the Congress Hotel management has refused to offer a contract with wages and worker protections comparable to those of other hotels in the city.

Marching with the striking workers Saturday morning before participating in the YearlyKos forum, Edwards put it this way:

Your cause is the cause of working people—making sure that those who work earn a decent wage, get health care coverage and can actually support their families and their children.

FULL story at link.

[Warpy]

1. I understand management pulled out a "HILLARY" banner

If that doesn't get through to all of us who work for a living, what will?