DNC Labor Council update [includes link to watch prior candidate forum]

Dear friends,

The DNC Labor Council Forum went extremely well and was a success - regardless of whomever becomes the next chair. More than 2000 people watched the Candidates for Chair answer union members’ questions. Our goal was to make labor and working people the center of the conversation about the future of the party - and we achieved that.

The forum (as well as the candidate videos at the beginning of the process) forced the party and all the candidates to focus on the erosion of support from working people and why that has happened; and make it central to their campaigns. We heard strong statements of solidarity and support from many candidates. There are several good choices for labor.

For those of you who may not have been able to watch the forum live, we are enclosing the link.

We are also including a link to the videos we have received from Candidates for Chair responding to the question of what they would do to ensure that the Democratic Party becomes the party of working people again.

The next meeting of the DNC Labor Council will take place on Friday, January 31st from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, as part of the upcoming DNC meetings. We hope to see you there.

Together we will build a stronger labor movement and a stronger Democratic Party.

Thank you.

Stuart Appelbaum, Chair

Roxanne Brown, Vice Chair