RWDSU Endorses Gillibrand for Senate (2/22/10)

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (at podium) and RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum (to her left). 

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The RWDSU today endorsed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for Senate in the 2010 elections, citing the Senator's long record of  fighting for issues important to working people. The endorsement was announced outside of Syms on Park Avenue in Manhattan, where Gillibrand met with RWDSU Local 1102 members employed at the retail store. 
 
"After more than a year of fighting for working people in the Senate Kirsten Gillibrand has shown she has the right priorities and the right vision for New York," Appelbaum said.

"She cares deeply about the struggles that so many of our families are going through and has established a strong, smart legislative agenda to move us in the right direction. She's been pushing hard to strengthen the right of workers to organize and is helping to lead the fight in the Senate to win affordable health care and end insurance company abuses.  She is also working tirelessly to increase wages for working people - and put a stop to big tax giveaways to big business and their CEOs at our expense. If we're going to rebuild our economy and give working families a real chance to succeed, we can't afford anything less than Kirsten Gillibrand, and that's why I am proud to endorse her for U.S. Senate."

"I am honored to have the endorsement of the RWDSU," Senator Gillibrand said. "These are men and women who are working hard each and every day to provide a better life for their families, send their kids to college, or perhaps care for their own parents.  It is time that government in Washington starts focusing on the needs of these hardworking New Yorkers -- people who play by the rules, but are being squeezed in this terrible economy. It is time we have an economy that works for all our workers, and I am proud to partner with the working families of the RWDSU to help President Obama create jobs and fix this economy."

(below) Senator Gillibrand met with RWDSU members at Syms to discuss issues important to working people, such as jobs, health care, and the economy.