AFL-CIO promises biggest get out the vote effort (12.4 million union voter

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4234

AFL-CIO promises biggest get out the vote effort

By Doug Cunningham

The election season is in full swing and groups vested in the outcome of races throughout the country are mobilizing funds and supporters. Organized labor is promising one of the bigger voter turn outs. Doug Cunningham has more:

AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman says the labor federation is not only spending a record $40 million on voter turnout in the midterm elections in November, but it has developed a state of the art program that will eclipse all other get out the vote efforts this year.

: “We will be the single biggest turnout program of anyone in this country. Our program reaches 12.4 million union voters in 21
top-tier states.”

FULL story at link above.

AUDIO version here: http://www.laborradio.org/files/lo/winsheadlines.ram

[texpatriot2004]

1. I am very grateful for the ACLU nm

[GOPBasher]

2. Nice!

It's so nice to have unions still fighting for us as they always have. I just wish far more of the workforce was unionized.

[Monkeyman]

3. Its all ready started phone call came in today saying hey get out and vote

Your life depends on changing Congress . I will get one once a week now Like I won;t Vote

[pinniped]

4. Unions hate these creeps.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/20/BAGQSL8P611.DTL

CAMPAIGN 2006
Unions will spend big to defeat governor

Tom Chorneau, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

(09-20) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- A coalition of the state's most powerful public employee unions has agreed to start an independent campaign opposing the re-election of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that could cost as much as $25 million, according to several sources familiar with the plan.
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more:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/20/BAGQSL8P611.DTL

[angryxyouth]

5. When the elections a rigged, Are the unions ready for a National Strike

I am a member of a union. I called Wrote and Emailed the AFL-CIO after the first and 2nd. ****stolen election, and nothing...
I am going to try to get a resolution from my local to go to national ,before the nov. elections, to ask for a commitment to strike if there are significant irregularities and fraud in this election. I would like to ask any of you who are union members to do the same.
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