Join hosts Tina Turner-Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell, and Ms. Deborah Hall in a discussion with Ms. April Sims, the Political and Strategic Campaign Director of the Washington State Labor Council, which is comprised of more than 600 union locals and councils representing approximately 450,000 rank-and-file union members throughout the State of Washington. Sister Sims has a stated history of developing and advancing strategic organizing campaigns to the benefit of Washington State workers in a partnership between organized labor and community partners. She has a successful history of increasing individual worker participation to address political and legislative and community programs in her role as Director of Field Mobilization. She also has a long and an effective history of member/worker education, communication and mobilization in her capacity as the Legislative and Political Action Field Coordinator for the Washington Federation of State Employees, AFSCME Council 28. Tonight’s show will highlight the results of a 2015 convention resolution submitted to the Washington State Labor Council. As described by the Washington State Labor Council, the intent of the resolution was to take up AFL-CIO President Trumka’s call to have “a serious and open-ended conversation about what we can do, about what we should do” about race and the labor movement. The end result was the development of a 7 hour workshop. Sister Sims has been an active participant in the development and presentation of this 7 hour workshop on Race and Labor.
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