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It takes resources to fight back
An extract from a speech to the 2005 convention by Larry Scanlon, AFSCME's Director of Political Action
WORKERS ARE under attack as never before in the history of this country.
We are paying the price for going from a national to an international economy.
Pension systems are under attack in virtually every state of the union.
How are we going to fight back? Think about how we communicate: cell telephones, TiVo. How are we going to do political advertising in the future? How are we going to do organizing?
How do we build capacity at the national and local level? How do we grow the union?
Millions of workers would like to be part of our union: we ought to be bringing in those workers who have an affinity and bring them into our union.
We are looking at ways to do that. but we would welcome your comments.
You are the future of the labor movement and you need to help us figure out how we are going to grow the labor movement.
It takes resources to fight back. It is hard whenever we say: We need more money. No one likes to ask for dues increases, but you have to pay the freight.
If we succeed we will take back our country and make it a great place to live and work in again.
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