The old saying “many a truth is spoken in jest” reminds me of a sign in a Paducah union hall from 1980: “A union member voting for Ronald Reagan is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
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Biden just proved to workers that he’s got our backs March 2, 2021 1:09 PM CDT By Berry Craig
Joe Biden, then the Democratic presidential candidate, meets with union leaders outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 7, 2020. | Carolyn Kaster / AP
Going on 86 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the most pro-union statement ever uttered by an American president. Joe Biden just broke FDR’s record.
Said the 46th president in a video posted to
Twitter: “…Workers in Alabama and all across America are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. This is vitally important a vitally important choice as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis, and the reckoning on race.”