Southfield City Councilman Jeremy Moss announced today that the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed his campaign for State Representative in Michigan’s 35th District.
“Organized labor has protected Michigan families for decades and has made sure that the wealthy and powerful don’t unilaterally set the terms and conditions for working people,” Moss said. “My grandfather was a union typesetter who lifted his family into Michigan’s middle class because his trade union made sure he earned a living wage that he deserved for the skilled work he completed. My family’s story is one of the many in Michigan that show why unions matter. That’s why it’s especially significant for me that my campaign earned its first labor endorsement from the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council.”
Moss is running as a Democrat in the open seat for the State House district that includes Southfield, Lathrup Village, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Franklin.
“Our organization represents the interests of 35,000 building trade union workers in southeast Michigan. We support candidates who embrace the goals of working people and organized labor,” said Patrick Devlin, Secretary-Treasurer of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. "I know Jeremy Moss will be an effective legislator to represent Michigan's working families."
Moss also announced that Paul Massaron - an elected member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors and retired UAW official – endorsed his bid for State Representative. Massaron is a resident of the 35th District.
“Unions matter to Michigan's working families and I'm proud to begin this campaign as a labor-supported and labor-supporting candidate,” Moss said.
Massaron joins a growing list of individual campaign supporters including: former Southfield-area State Representatives Maxine Berman and Paul Condino; Southfield Councilman and former Mayor Donald Fracassi and Southfield Councilmen Myron Frasier and Ken Siver; former Southfield Councilmembers Roy Bell, Nida Samona, Barbara Talley and Linnie Taylor; Lathrup Village Councilwoman Maria Mannarino Thompson; Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner; Oakland County Commissioner Marcia Gershenson, whose district previously included Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Franklin; and Dr. Jonice Crawford Butler, president of the Greater Southfield/Farmington Area NAACP.
