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By Doug Cunningham

Two thousand activists and leaders from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) are meeting in Washington, D.C. to plan and mobilize a political and legislative strategy to advance workers interests. Ethan Rome is AFSCME Public Affairs Director.

[Rome]: "This conference is about bringing two thousand of our activists from all across the country together to make battle plans to keep the Congress in Democratic, pro-worker hands, to win the presidency, to win Democratic governors and statehouses all across the country."

AFSCME plans to field an activist army of 40,000 people in the 2008 elections. Rome says the leadership of Congress is committed to being pro-worker, but with an anti-worker president and just a slim Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate more work has to be done in 2008 to take back the country for working families.