Minnesota AFL-CIO steps up efforts to elect pro-worker governor with two day political conference
St. Paul, MN--Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson will open the labor federation’s 2009 Political Conference Thursday, Oct. 1 at the Ramada Mall of America, 2300 American Blvd., Bloomington. Members of more than twenty major unions will attend conference.
Conference highlights include:
Thursday, Oct. 1- 10 AM—Gubernatorial Candidate Forum with 11 DFL candidates
- 12:30 PM—Sen. Tarryl Clark, Minnesota AFL-CIO endorsed candidate for the Sixth Congressional District
- 1PM—Karen Ackerman, AFL-CIO Political Director and architect of the federation’s successful national electoral program
- 9 AM—Elizabeth Shuler, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, newly elected AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer—and at 39 the youngest AFL-CIO officer in history
- 9:30 AM--Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie
The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state’s largest and strongest labor federation, unites more than 300,000 working people in over 1,100 affiliated local unions across our state. The mission of the Minnesota AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation. The Minnesota AFL-CIO is part of the nation's largest and strongest labor federation—theAFL-CIO.