Martin Luther King Jr. Gave His Life Supporting Workers’ Rights

Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we celebrate this weekend, died fighting for the freedom of Memphis sanitation workers to form a union with AFSCME. For King, economic justice went hand in hand with civil rights and the right to join a union was critical to gaining economic justice. Writing on AlterNet, Laura Flanders says: King saw public workers …

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