Liz Shuler, the brand new president of the AFL-CIO – and its first feminine chief – seemed on the dear in-person Show screen Breakfast in almost two years.
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Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO president, speaks on the St. Regis Resort on Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. She says Washington has “the most educated-worker administration in historical previous” below President Joe Biden.
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Dear Reader,
So mighty has took set aside since our last in-person Show screen Breakfast – Nov. 21, 2019, with Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee. The pandemic sent us into lockdown. The aspect highway in front of Washington’s St. Regis Resort, where we abet our breakfasts, erupted in violence following the abolish of George Floyd. Joe Biden used to be elected president.
Down the aspect highway from the St. Regis, AFL-CIO headquarters had suffered harm in some unspecified time in the future of the riots of 2020. Now, workers on the nation’s greatest labor federation are help on the set aside of business. And to boot they accept as true with got a brand new chief, Liz Shuler, after the passing last month of their longtime president, Richard Trumka.
President Shuler picked dazzling up where President Trumka had left off, performing at our breakfast Tuesday in what has change into an annual pre-Labor Day custom. Ms. Shuler spoke of legislative efforts to motivate team unionize, the role of unions as a supply of “trusted recordsdata” in some unspecified time in the future of the pandemic, and her hang pleasure at turning into the dear feminine president of the AFL-CIO.
“Females are half of the personnel,” acknowledged Ms. Shuler, who became a union organizer at age 23 and hasn’t regarded help. “It’s incredibly crucial to signal that the labor circulation is a circulation for ladies.”
My Q&A from the breakfast is here. The C-SPAN video would possibly well perhaps simply also be considered here. Show screen reporter Story Hinckley wrote a notice-up article Thursday on the altering job market.
For more on Ms. Shuler, here’s my interview with her help in 2016, when she used to be the AFL-CIO’s secretary-treasurer. She spoke about sexual harassment, mentors, and why ladies are in most cases more solution-oriented than males.
At our Tuesday breakfast, there were additionally recollections of Mr. Trumka, a undergo of a man who didn’t shy from a fight. Here’s my remembrance of him.
But perhaps dazzling as crucial because the recount of the breakfast discussion used to be the fact that we gathered in any respect. Reporters and guests alike marveled at how special it used to be dazzling to mingle – in person. Seems to be all people’s rather Zoomed out.
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