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“The fight for workers control of safety on the job is a necessity. We need to build fighting unions to do this,” Glova Scott, Socialist Workers Party candidate for D.C. City Council in Ward 4, told Greg Bowen Jr., above center, after he testified at an Amalgamated Transit Union-organized safety hearing March 25. “I work at Walmart and we’re in a fight for $15 an hour and a union. Your testimony explained what workers are up against.” “A temporary patch is how the capitalists look at it. Only the working class puts the lives of workers ahead of profits,” Scott said. “The Socialist Workers Party calls for a massive federally funded public works program to provide jobs and rebuild the country’s infrastructure, to expand and maintain public transit, for housing and other things workers need.” “Bridges, tracks, railroad crossings — we’re at the point where it’s funding or our lives,” said Bowen’s father, Greg Bowen Sr., who is also a high voltage mechanic and former Amtrak engineer. “I like what you are saying. Millions of workers need jobs.” “The working class needs to run the country,” said Scott. |
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