South Carolina AFL-CIO President Urges Labor Movement Support For Freightliner 5 - 01/30/08
29th January 2008
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Five UAW Local 3520 bargaining committee members fired by Freightliner in April after a one-day strike are getting some support from the labor movement. The UAW International isn’t supporting the workers efforts to get their jobs back because the one-day strike was authorized only by the local and not by the International UAW. South Carolina AFL-CIO President Donna Dewitt supports these five UAW bargaining committee members fired by Freightliner and she says they deserve some solidarity from the entire labor movement.
[Dewitt]: “They weren’t happy with the contract offer, and they were standing up for their rights. And I don’t know exactly what happened with UAW, but all I know is that there are five UAW members and officers of a local that have been out of work now going on ten months. So I would appeal to everyone to reach out to help raise funds for these folks and their efforts to be rehired. They need their jobs back.”