The Anchorage NAACP and the Anchorage Central Labor Council have called on lieutenant governor candidate Dan Sullivan to apologize for comments likening required payment of union dues to slavery.
Sullivan, who currently serves as Anchorage mayor, made the comments during a candidate forum Monday.
The slavery comparison came up when Sullivan was asked about right-to-work legislation, in which employees are not required to join a union to get or keep a job.
Sullivan told The Associated Press today that there are many forms of slavery, and he was talking about “economic slavery.”
While he originally said he did not believe an apology was necessary, he later sent a statement saying that he apologized “if the use of the word offended anyone.”
