AFL-CIO that ignored King march in 1963, now opens doors to NAACP

Published September 13, 2013 4:00am ET



Big Labor’s AFL-CIO is a rock in changing times, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the union federation during its 2013 convention.

“When political injustice threatened to break our democracy, members of the labor movement were there, working for jobs and freedom, marching right alongside Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King,” the Massachusetts Democratic freshman senator said.

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