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Article: Party hardly: Labor gets it together (sort of). (Labor Party Founding Convention in Cleveland, OH, 1996)
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- The Progressive
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- August 1, 1996
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Off the sidewalks and into the streets! Let's show them what this Labor Party is all about!"
With that chant, 1,400 union members from across the country flexed a muscle that American political parties rarely use. In Cleveland to launch the Labor Party, the delegates left their convention duties to join a raucous protest against Democratic Mayor Michael White's proposal to gut Ohio's collective-bargaining law for public employees. Swelling into the streets outside City Hall, the delegates marched impromptu to the Marriott Hotel where White was meeting with aides.
"We never thought, just as we arrived here in Cleveland to talk about forming a Labor Party, that ...