Hey, Troy Miller here, Democratic candidate for West Virginia House of Delegates in District 98.
(Find the original post and video HERE )
It's been a moment since we've done one of these posts and there's a lot I'd like to talk about, but we want to really highlight the fact that we're thrilled to be endorsed by three very important labor organizations, very important unions in the state of West Virginia.
And those are
1) the WV AFL-CIO's Political Action Committee.
2) The West Virginia Educators Association Political Action Committee.
And 3) last but absolutely not least, the UMWA's -- the United Mine Workers of America's Coal Miners Political Action Committee.
We are the only candidate in this race to be endorsed by any of these groups, and we’re thrilled to be endorsed by all three.
(Find all of our endorsements and more about this campaign and District 98 HERE.)
With that, we are proud to fight for labor and fight for unions.
And we have been talking about the 21st century Economic Bill of Rights. The very first top two things on there are "the right to a job with a living wage" and "the right to a to join a union and to engage in collective bargaining".
And one of the ways that that's being undermined right now in West Virginia is pro-corporate legislation called "Right to Work" -- more appropriately called "Right to Work for Less".
That basically says that workers can have all of the representation and all of the benefits of a union negotiation and union contract without having to pay the union dues.
And that is a problem of free riders!
If I'm elected to Charleston I will fight tooth and nail to have that repealed and to get every person the representation, the union representation they deserve if they want to engage in a workplace where a union is representing the workers.
If you want to help support this campaign, if you want to join those labor organizations and their political action committees that have endorsed this campaign, please go to www.TroyForWV.com .
You can find out more about us, you can subscribe for updates and you can DONATE, please!
Thank you so much!
Troy N. Miller
Democratic Candidate for WV House of Delegates District 98
(PS, all donations will ultimately go through: secure.actblue.com/… if you’d rather head directly there. We’re going to need every dollar of support — and we also invite you to explore the campaign’s webpage in any case. Thank you, again!)