The Nation : Jackson Asks Labor Unity
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, saying union and civil rights leaders “must turn to each other instead of on each other,” moved to patch up relations with wary labor activists who viewed him as a spoiler in the 1984 presidential election. Addressing the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO’s executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., Jackson said that Democrats should make “economic violence” waged against workers and the poor the focus of the 1988 election campaign. “What we both are about is fighting for justice; there never has been any other way, really,” Jackson told the leaders of 31 unions who represent 3.1 million government employees.
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