SEIU Members Outshine Journalists in Questioning Candidates

BY DAVID DAYEN

OCTOBER 5, 2019

“Five leading presidential candidates took questions on Friday from home caregivers, secretaries, bus drivers, and social workers in an SEIU Unions for All Summit in Los Angeles. Later, they took questions from political horse-race journalists.

Everyone involved should switch jobs.

Many unions this cycle have turned over their candidate forum events to their members, who draw on their own experiences to question politicians. I hadn’t seen it up close until the SEIU gathering. The diversity of professions that make up SEIU led favorably to a real discussion about the litany of challenges in American life, from employer power to healthcare to transportation and housing.”

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