Corporate-backed, Out-Of-Touch Lawmakers Are The Real Leeches: Alabama AFL-CIO President Responds to Gov. Ivey and Speaker Ledbetter Lies About Unions

Alabama AFL-CIO President Bren Riley releases the following response to lawmaker attacks on the labor movement:

Governor Kay Ivey and House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter’s recent comments in the media attacking unions are nothing but outright lies from politicians who are afraid of workers having even a little power to better their lives. They both called the United Auto Workers (UAW) a “dangerous leech” this week, just days after Gov. Ivey released a statement—alongside a couple other bought-and-paid-for lawmakers who are in the pocket of big corporations—claiming unions are special interest groups here to “threaten our jobs and the values we live by.”  - Read the Press Release