Unions mark MLK's death with national protests

By Errin Haines

Associated Press

Published: Monday, April 4 2011 9:20 p.m. MDT

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The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed more than four decades ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights.

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Tha Navigator

Taylorsville, Utah

When MLK was supporting the black sanitation munincipal workers in Memphis, it had to do with skin color, not collective bargaining rights of government workers, directly. The civil rights movement still had a way to go, since he, tragically, was More..

1:01 a.m. April 5, 2011
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Gentile

brookings, SD

OH my, same old lines. MLK Jr. was for the unions. He was for the working stiff, you know. He understood that the unions gave all men and women, of any race, an identity. Today he would be in Madison and other places, working to protect the More..

6:14 a.m. April 5, 2011
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Kimball

Bakersfield, CA

Let's see unions do something productive rather than shutting down and costing more time and money. Change your reputation and you can help workers and the economy.

11:26 a.m. April 5, 2011
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