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AFL-CIO, Change To Win Both Ramping Up Labor's Political Effort In Final Days - 11/02/06With election day only six days away, organized labor has been ramping up with a final massive push. By Jesse Russell The AFL-CIO held a press conference on Wednesday to highlight their objectives over the last days of the election cycle - which the organization is calling “the final four.” Karen Ackerman, political director for the AFL called this year’s election a referendum on the current administration by working families. [Karen Ackerman]: "This election is a clear rejection by working families on the Bush agenda - a Bush agenda of undermining the economic security of working families. It's a policy of exporting jobs, of privatizing social security, of not protecting pensions, of no health care and the safety net for working families really being undermined." Meanwhile Anna Burger, head of the Change to Win Federation, is on the road making stops in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio - all of which have been hit hard by job losses in recent years. She said that because of the important issues in this election season Change to Win members are “volunteering in a massive, grassroots effort at their worksites and in their communities to help elect candidates who will fight to make work pay for ordinary Americans, not just corporate America.” |
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