Labors Role in the 2004 Elections

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Labors Role in the 2004 Elections

• Kevin Mack
• Winning Directions
• 2700 South Quincy Street, Suite 540
• Arlington, VA 22206
• Ph703-575-0500
• Fx703-575-0501
• www.winningdirections.com
• kmack_at_winningdirections.com

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Who is Labor supporting?
Dick Gephardt

• International Union of Bricklayers and Allied
  Craftworkers
• International Union of Journeymen Horseshoers and
  Allied Trades
• Laborers International Union
• Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association
• Office and Professional Employees International
  Union
• Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons
  International Association
• Paper Allied Chemical and Energy International
  Union
• Seafarers International Union
• United Food and Commercial Workers
• United Steelworkers of America
• Iowa United Auto Workers

• Amalgamated Transit Union
• American Maritime Officers
• Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain
  Millers International Union
• Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
• International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
  Employees
• International Association of Bridge, Structural,
  Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
• International Association of Machinists and
  Aerospace Workers
• International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron
  Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• International Longshoremen's Association

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Who is Labor supporting?

• Howard Dean
• AFSCME
• SEIU
• CTA
• International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
  (IUPAT)

• John Kerry
• IAFF
• Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA)

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Who is Labor supporting?

• Unions that have not endorsed a candidate
• NEA
• AFT
• UAW
• IBEW

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527 Organizations

• America Coming Together
• Ellen Malcom, EMILYs List
• Steve Rosenthal, former AFL-CIO Political
  Director
• Andy Stern, SEIU
• Gina Glantz, SEIU and former campaign manager for
  Bill Bradleys presidential campaign
• ACT will concentrate on grassroots activities and
  direct voter contact. ACT plans to center its
  activities on the Bush and GOP records on
  employment, environmental, homeland security and
  other domestic issues
• Partnership for Americas Families
• Steve Rosenthal
• JoDee Winterhoff
• The group has strong labor backing. It was
  created in early 2003 to target turnout beyond
  union households among African-American and
  Hispanic communities

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527 Organizations

• Voices for Working Families
• Gerald McEntee, AFSCME President
• Board Members include AFL-CIO Treasurer Richard
  Trumka and Geraldine Ferraro
• similar goals to the Partnership for Americas
  Families (PAF) and enjoys the backing of the
  AFL-CIO. VWF and PAF have agreed to work
  together.
• America Votes
• Cecille Richards, daughter of former Governor Ann
  Richards
• Coalition of NEA, AFT, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU,
  ACORN, EMILY's List, League of Conservation
  Voters (LCV), MoveOn.org, Moving America Forward,
  NAACP National Voter Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice
  America, Partnership for America's Families,
  People For the American Way, Planned Parenthood
  Action Fund, and the Sierra Club.
• America Votes will work to increase voter
  participation through registration, education and
  mobilization America Votes will facilitate
  coordination between and among participating
  groups.

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527 Organizations

• Grassroots Democrats
• Morton Bahr, CWA
• Amy Chapman
• Grassroots Democrats will use its resources on
  voter ID and direct voter contact efforts and is
  focused on state and local organization,
  specifically channeling money to state and local
  parties with turnout and party-building efforts.
• The group has commitments for a total of at least
  500,000 in contributions from AFSCME, CWA and
  ATLA.

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Other Labor Efforts

• AFL-CIO Sandwich Program
• Working America
• Ongoing Grassroots Mobilization