Campaign supporters have recently disributed the Militant and campaign literature to airline workers at Miami International Airport. The last two weeks airline workers have bought 73 copies of the paper.

During a September 17 press conference at city hall, TV Channel 6, an NBC affiliate, and the Miami Herald interviewed the two candidates.

“The first thing we want to do is extend our support to the independent truckers in the port of Miami in their efforts to organize into the Teamsters union,” Musa told the press. The socialist candidates later visited the Teamsters union hiring hall. “We also support the mechanics on strike at Northwest Airlines and the machinists on strike at Boeing. Our campaign is directed towards working people.”

“Workers fought for and won a union where I work,” said Simpson, a sewing machine operator at Point Blank Body Armor. “I stand firmly in support of organizing and mobilizing union power to resist bosses’ attacks on wages and working conditions.”

Musa and Simpson said they are calling for ending Washington’s economic war on Cuba, defending the sovereignty of Venezuela, and for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, the Balkans, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  
 
 
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