Labor On the Move: Andy Richards Moves to AFL-CIO's New Digital Strategies Dept
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Former Assistant Mobilizer Andy Richards (at
right), who most recently worked in the AFL-CIO’s field communications
program, has moved over to the AFL-CIO’s new Digital Strategies Department to
work on the national’s new media program. “I am excited to be staying with
the AFL-CIO and working to help build on the strong online presence we already
have,” Richards told Union City. “It will be great to be using the
skills I first learned at the DC Labor Council and refined through the
AFL-CIO’s Field Communications program to apply them in our efforts to stop
the concerted attacks on working families by corporate-funded politicians and
right-wing extremists who want to further consolidate control of our country
into the hands of the 1%.” - photo of
Richards walking the line in solidarity with striking ironworkers at Foggy
Bottom in February, 2010; photo by Adam Wright