Beshear reiterated his support of key working family issues: affordable health care for all, the right to retire with dignity and the need to protect good, middle-class jobs. Recognizing how important union support is in his strategy to win, he told the crowd, “While there are lots of ways you can help me win, the most important thing you can do is what you do best: the labor movement’s member-to-member program.”
Watch the video right now and hear Steve Beshear tell union activists the importance of the labor walks, phone banking, worksite leafleting and local union mail programs.
The passionate crowd represented a diverse cross-section of the Kentucky labor movement, including members of AFGE, AFSCME, Building and Construction Trades Department, Carpenters, Communications Workers of America, Fire Fighters, IAM, Electrical Workers, Iron Workers, Laborers, Jefferson County Teachers Association-NEA, Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, UAW, United Food and Commercial Workers, United Steelworkers, Mine Workers and more.