Saunders & McEntee Defend Working Families in Book, ‘The Main Street Moment’

‘The Main Street Moment: Fighting Back to Save the American Dream’ offers searing look at income inequality

Unprecedented attacks on workers’ rights. Growing income inequality. In a new book out this spring, AFSCME Pres. Gerald McEntee and Sec.-Treas. Lee Saunders examine these issues and provide a roadmap to economic justice. Their thesis: When unions are strong, America is strong.

In The Main Street Moment: Fighting Back to Save the American Dream, McEntee and Saunders tell the stories of individual members nationwide who are fighting the attacks by politicians and the 1 percent.

They write:

“We stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down the path of greater income inequality, ceding our voices and our democracy to the wealthy and the powerful. Or we can fight back. That is what men and women across America have chosen to do to make this Main Street’s moment. They chose to fight and to build a better future—for themselves, for their communities, and for this country that we love. We have written this book to enlist even more Americans in the struggle to save the soul of our nation and return power once again to the people. We know that, together, we can win this fight.”

Deeply moving and eye-opening, The Main Street Moment examines the central role unions play in protecting all Americans against widespread economic collapse.

Profits from the sale of the book, published by Nation Books, will go to the AFSCME Fallen Heroes Fund, which provides emergency relief and immediate assistance to members who are the victims of natural disasters and other tragedies.

Purchase the book online at Powell's Books or in bookstores.