No enthusiasm gap at jam-packed union phone bank
CHICAGO - By noon Oct. 29, union members were close to having called 500,000 people in Illinois about the Nov. 2 elections, here at what the Operating Engineers say is the nation's biggest, most state-of-the-art phone bank.
Navistar workers say voting Nov. 2 is about good paying jobs
MELROSE PARK, Ill. - "We need to elect leaders that are friendly to labor and understand that what we need is more jobs, because without jobs, this country can't operate," said Ralph Porter, longtime Navistar worker.
Labor's final dash to the finish
CHICAGO (PAI) - Union leaders and members are in a mad dash to the finish for the 2010 election cycle with leaders crisscrossing the country to concentrate on key races - even phone-banking on Election Day itself - while workers are making home visits, giving shop-floor talks and leafleting.
"Without Ted Strickland I wouldn't have my job"
"Many pronounced the cause hopeless, but fortunately we had the support of this community and we had the support of Gov. Strickland."
For Connecticut voters a stark choice
The fight is on in this state, but an intensive campaign by union members knocking on the doors of their co-workers' homes to talk about the elections is breaking through the right-wing noise.
Penn. labor aims to keep Keystone State blue
"We're everywhere, not just in the east or the western part of the state," said Liz McElroy of the AFL-CIO.
Labor intensifies outreach to Y generation
The AFL-CIO is stepping up a program it hopes will eventually bring the Y generation into the labor movement.
Wall Street Journal warns labor could stop GOP in its tracks
Evidence that all the media hype about a coming GOP victory in the mid-term elections may be totally off base surfaced Oct. 12 in a warning to the ruling class from the Wall Street Journal.
Cabin pressure rises at Delta as union vote begins
Thursday, September 30, when union voting began, marked a glimmer of hope in the lives of 21,000 flight attendants at Delta Airlines, even though many of them may not see it.
A peek at how unions “kick ass” in an election
Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that the labor movement knows how to "kick ass," when it comes to elections.
