We Can Make a Difference Says Trades Unionist of the Year Jimmy Tarlau: “We have to do something different,” CWA 2-13’s Jimmy Tarlau said Saturday night as he accepted the 2013 JC Turner Award for Outstanding Trades Unionist of the Year at the 37th annual Evening with Labor. “We cannot just keep on getting the same people elected and expect that we’re going to get different results. We have to take control of what we do politically. We have to make sure that the candidates we support talk about expanding labor rights and correcting economic inequality in our country and our state – not just in union halls but door to door when they’re talking to potential voters.” Tarlau, a CWA District 2-13 assistant to the Vice-President and Mount Rainier City Councilmember who’s now running for a seat in the Maryland Assembly, said that “We have to be the ones who take the lead in Annapolis.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:43:38 +0000