National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Georgia AFL-CIO President Yvonne Brooks have co-authored a Labor Perspective that centers on Organizing Southern Workers.  It reads, in part: Governor Brian Kemp and five other Southern governors recently sent a chilling statement to Working People in this State: Don’t you dare join a Union. While politicians in the South have a long and sordid history of thwarting workers’ legal right to stand together in a Union, these brazen and highly inappropriate threats no longer carry the weight they once did.  Workers at the Blue Bird Electric Bus Factory in Macon (Georgia) made history last year by voting to join the United Steelworkers and last month ratified their first contract, which included substantial wage gains, health and safety protections and much more.  These Workers and many others in the South who choose to stand together in a Union are sending a powerful message to Anti-Union Governors like Kemp: We won’t be bullied.

To Read Their Labor Perspective In Full, Go To: Unions and communities are building a Southern economy for all. | Opinion (yahoo.com)