Union members will pitch Kerry door-to-door
June 12, 2004
BY LEIGH STROPE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Jobs are sending union members to the streets and, labor leaders hope, to the polls in November for Democrat John Kerry.
In labor's largest election mobilization effort so far this year, thousands of union members will knock on tens of thousands of doors starting today in what will be nearly 100 cities by month's end.
They'll talk about the loss of good-paying jobs, the economy, health care and the presidential election.
"This is the earliest walk we've ever done and the largest walk of this magnitude," said Karen Ackerman, the AFL-CIO's political director.
The AFL-CIO is spending a record $44 million on get-out-the-vote efforts
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