Which Candidate actually has walked a picket line or spent quality time on a union organizing campaign?
You may think it’s a small point. But, a candidate who can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with people who are in a fight with their employers (either on strike or when they are battling to win the right to have a union) is a person who isn’t likely to play the neutrality game once in office a la “I can’t side with either workers or the employer”–or worse. And which candidate has done that throughout their life, not just when they needed a convenient photo-op to show they care about workers? Which Candidate can show a real record of fighting for good laws, or at least a real plan for the future? I’m not in favor of making a checklist for every vote. And it isn’t always the actual vote we should look at: we should also judge a candidate based on how hard s/he fought to pass a piece of legislation or fight against some really awful legislation. It doesn’t cut any ice with me if someone was there for a vote, whose outcome is known by all, but did very little along the hard road to victory. Ri
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- For Category B activities, how much time would need to be spent in actually attending a meeting or presentation and how would these hours be transformed into CE units?
- Which Candidate actually has walked a picket line or spent quality time on a union organizing campaign?
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