Women have the power to be the difference in this year’s election. A deeper look into races on the federal and state levels show women as a pivotal vote in 2016. For the past several election cycles, we’ve heard a lot about soccer moms and unmarried women helping determine the election cycle. Soccer moms represent the swing vote, while unmarried women turn out disproportionately for Democrats—that is, when they vote. Liz Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, last month launched “Women in the Breakroom” to educate union women about the candidates who will help working people build a better life. When asked why she was supporting Hillary Clinton, Remoria Miller of Machinists Local 134, a participant in a “Women in the Breakroom” event, said that “Equal pay and women having a voice in the workplace go hand in hand.” Read more on our website at dclabor.org
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1909, police arrested 150 in an IWW free speech fight in Spokane, Washington. In 1920, railroad union leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs received nearly a million votes for president while imprisoned for opposing World War I. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill designating a federal holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to be observed on the third Monday of January. And in 1989, Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, New Jersey, earning himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. He started driving at age 17 and, reportedly, chauffeured Princeton Professor Albert Einstein around town. Today’s labor quote is by Albert Einstein, explaining why he joined the American Federation of Teachers local 552 as a charter member in 1938: “I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.”
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