Yay... I can hardly wait. 
Posted on 08/27/2004 11:33:41 AM PDT by leadpencil1
WASHINGTON -- As President Bush addresses the Republican National Convention on Thursday, September 2, 10,000 union members will go door-to-door to talk with a million union households about the jobs crisis, the need for affordable healthcare and a secure retirement - - and where the candidates stand on these issues. It will be the largest single-day election mobilization in the union movement’s history.
From Davenport, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri to the coast of Maine and the mountains of the Northwest, nurses, cooks, steelworkers, teachers, office workers and others will fan out to conduct voter education with union members as part of the AFL-CIO’s Labor ’04 program. This year, political volunteerism is at an all-time high in the movement because workers are concerned about the direction of the nation under President Bush, especially jobs leaving the country and the family budget-busting, rising cost of health care.
"Despite the rosy rhetoric of the Republicans, the prolonged jobs crisis tears at the fabric of America’s middle class," said John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO. "Never before have working people been so energized about an election. We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of volunteers who want to be out in their neighborhoods, talking to fellow union members while President Bush accepts his party’s nomination."
So far, thousands of union members have signed up for the September 2 walks in nearly 200 communities in 16 states. The walks will generally take place in the evening, and will last four to six hours. Walkers will be given a group orientation session and will then be assigned detailed maps which show exactly where to find union members’ houses on each street in their assigned areas. They will walk in pairs, and some members will bring their children.
The union members are volunteering their time with the AFL-CIO program through their local union and their local labor movement. Some members have signed up online through the AFL-CIO’s online political system, where members can also download leaflets to pass out at work.
Union household members are expected to represent one out of four voters in November, as they did in the 2000 Presidential elections.
The September 2 walks are part of the AFL-CIO’s continuing outreach program to inform and mobilize America’s working families around issues central to their lives and future for the 2004 election. The AFL-CIO is the umbrella organization for America’s unions and represents 13 million working men and women.
That's for sure! We won't see any of them until sometime in December.
You will normally get a 4 percent or so raise a year, but Bush tried to screw gov't employees with a 1.5 percent raise. If Bush is reelected, he will eliminate social security and you will all lose your jobs. And so on and so forth...
Funny thing is, one of the other new hires asked the management about a dental plan - another employee said that if you join the union, they offer a dental plan - and the manager made the comment, yeah, you could join the union, but it will cost you big time!
I guess its a little refreshing to see that not everyone is big into the union, especially in Pittsburgh...
Trial lawyers cost more jobs every year than "offshore outsourceing" ever has.
Trial lawyers have the greatest impact on the cost of health insurance.
Not sure who originally said it, but....
If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free!
Yay... I can hardly wait.
The ratmedia saves this same article and dusts it off every cycle. They first used it in 96, "Thug unions to spend every penny they have to get the congress back for the rats." And they did and they didn't! Then when that didn't work, they said it again in 98. Same results. 2000 and 2002 - same result. The problem these thugs have is that people are no longer swayed by nit wits knocking on their doors. It did't work then. It won't work now.
My favorite story is about the morons in the Florida teachers union who re mortgaged their headquarters to put up money for foghorn leghorn aka bill mclawyer's campaign for gov of Fla. Now they have no HQ! Hee hee hee.
Good point.
Each union worker is going to knock on a hundred doors?
It'll be the most work that nearly all of them have done in a long time.
New sign for my door: This door made by non-union workers. It works all the time, why don't you?
The ratmedia saves this same article and dusts it off every cycle. They first used it in 96, "Thug unions to spend every penny they have to get the congress back for the rats." And they did and they didn't! Then when that didn't work, they said it again in 98. Same results. 2000 and 2002 - same result. The problem these thugs have is that people are no longer swayed by nit wits knocking on their doors. It did't work then. It won't work now.
My favorite story is about the morons in the Florida teachers union who re mortgaged their headquarters to put up money for foghorn leghorn aka bill mclawyer's campaign for gov of Fla. Now they have no HQ! Hee hee hee. One more thing, remember cheeks gephardt had the "UNIONS" backing him in the rat primaries. In Mo. he got 11%!!!!Hee hee hee again.
I wonder if union dues will be used to pay for the expenses.
I dare them to come to my house, too. I have a feeling that all of our Bush-Cheney stickers and signs will keep them away. Kind of like garlic keeping vampires away!!
I go from time to time to an appointment at a union location (hospital)and I have to register in order to see my Dr. Even though I get there very early (in order to be first on the list), the clerks who do the registering refuse to assist anyone until 8:00 because they say they will get in trouble.
So we all have to wait until 8:00, at which time there is a HUGE freaking line of people waiting to register. The clerks sit at their desks drinking coffee and reading the paper waiting till 8:00. Jeezzz.
Should get conservative owned restaurants and bars to offer free beer for union members during the time they're supposed to be knocking on doors.
Our own Teamsters guy here in Boston - George Cashman - won't be going door to door. He was sent to federal prison for messing around with medical benefits and retirement funds of union members. Sadly he had to resign his membership on the board of directors of Massport. (think Logan Airport, lax security, 911). Taxachusetts: hand-in-hand with union thugs.
A few years later Caterpillar told its workers to go to hell when they went on strike, and then GM refused to give in when some of their foundry workers DEMANDED to have a 5 1/2 hour day count as an 8 hour one for pay purposes.
They're getting pretty desperate now, and taking in whatever they can get, and most union employees now are of the $6/hr variety.
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