Philadelphia Hosting Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention
By Paul Kurtz
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The annual Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention is being held in Philadelphia this week, and the 2016 election is a big topic of discussion.
The national office of the AFL-CIO plans to spend extra time and money in about a half dozen states this election cycle, including Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia AFL-CIO chief Pat Eiding says this time they're not going to focus primarily on the Presidential race, as they've done in the past.
"We spent a whole lot of time getting somebody in the White House, and we let state, after state, after state, go right wing and become right-to-work states like Michigan and Wisconsin. So Pennsylvania is on a precipice of being one of those states if we don't make our members, and average working people, everybody, aware that they're against working people," said Eiding.
Other goals of the convention including raising the minimum wage, fair trade policies and modernizing instead of privatizing the states Wine and Spirits system.
