Many held signs reading “Workers’ Rights = Civil Rights” and “We Deserve Better” as Sanders, actor Danny Glover, NAACP President Cornell Brooks and United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams made the case for union membership. “If you are a member of a union in America, you are going to make 27 percent more than a non-union member. If you are a member of a union, you’re far more likely to have paid family and medical leave. It lost two votes at Nissan’s plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, and no vote has been held in Canton. That’s why I’m going to keep fighting for good jobs at Nissan’s plant, no matter what it takes,” Mock said.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2017 23:48 UTC