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Shelton: We Can't Stay on the Course Charted by the 1 Percent

In an op-ed that appeared in The Hill, a Capitol Hill print and digital newspaper, CWA President Chris Shelton talked about how the partnership between the labor movement and the civil rights movement is how we will gain economic and social justice.

"Today, just as 50 years ago, we must build a movement to secure our freedom. This begins with a freedom from want: a decent standard of living, a union job, and the ability for our children to do better than we did, as well as our democratic freedoms, especially our right to vote and our right to have a truly participatory democracy by and for the people."

Read the full op-ed here.