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This video was published and copyrighted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc. as an online workshop related to empowering Black America and the Role of Unions in the Future of Black Americans and other working class people. I found it VERY interesting and informative, so I sought and obtained permission to share with friends and colleagues from Dr. Jonathan Carr who was the moderator of this section (Copyright owned by CBCF, Inc.) The Panelists include the President and CEO of the largest union in the United States, an expert in labor economics, demographics, and trends, a member of the US House of Representatives with a long and involved history of advocating for unions, their members, and Black Americans, and an expert in trends in labor unions going forward into the future and their growing impact and importance in the politics and social justice issues of working class people.
Although I have a long history of involvement and study of labor industrial relations (MLIR) and have been involved in public sector employee advocacy and served as an arbitrator and mediator, I actually learned a whole lot and felt like many of my colleagues and others interested in labor relations, political coalitions, dispute resolution, and improving the lives and economic circumstances of Americans would also benefit from viewing this video and thinking about its implications for the future.
While the entire 1 hour video is well worth viewing, in my opinion, the meat of the information and discussion begins when the panel actually begins to share information and opinions and makes a "call to action" for unions and ALL their members at about 15 minutes into the video.
I encourage all my friends and followers who enjoy this video (and the two related videos from the October 24, 2023 program offered by the CBCF, Inc., to check out the entire collection of professionally recorded videos shared with the public on the CBCF Inc. Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=congressional+black+caucus
The theme of the NAACP for 2023, as a leadup to the crucial elections of 2024 which will impact the politics and culture of the United States of America for decades into the future, was "Thriving Together."
President Johnson, fresh off the picket line of UAW 602 strikers in Lansing that day, came to the Lansing NAACP dinner to share a message of the importance of going into the future of unionized labor and collective bargaining and negotiations in the economic and political security of working-class people - especially of "people of color" whom he explained included almost all present-day Americans "except White Supremacists and haters." He pointed out that when the NAACP was founded in 1909, many Americans with "white skins" were not actually considered by those in control of America's politics and culture at that time to be "white." The colored people who helped make America truly great beginning in 1909 included Jews, Catholics, Arabs and Muslims, and Asians - all members of groups that had at some point in America's history been oppressed or regarded as "colored people" by Americans who were of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heritage...
I apologize for the quality of the video which I personally recorded on my smartphone from a distance - especially for the first two or three minutes of the 33-minute speech - but it improved significantly after that point. It also has an auto-generated transcript or CC that will help to ensure a full and better understanding of the important message President Johnson delivered. I found President Johnson's keynote address to be inspiring, and insightful, and it certainly is consistent with and gives a deeper background and understanding of the importance of labor unions in the upcoming election cycles.
As President Johnson quickly pointed out, in 2023 "Worker Rights are the Same as Civil Rights" and we must work collaboratively to reach our goals of social justice and equity, the dignity of the working class and middle-class people, and Black people in particular in these United States.
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