Will 2008 Be Our Year?

Posted on February 13th, 2007

IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY URGED YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT, CLICK HERE TO TELL YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR WORKING MEN AND WOMEN TO GAIN THE BENEFITS OF SAYING “UNION YES”! (Click here to read more about the EFCA)

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“Let’s allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country’s middle class again…”
-Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama (Click here to watch his presidential candidacy announcement)

The young candidacy of Barack Obama shows a lot of promising signs. One sign that jumps right out at you when you visit his website is how much can be done with web technology. And everything Obama has done on his site can be paralleled on a union (or union-friendly) website. Wouldn’t it be great to see unions stepping into the 21st century and grasping some of the unique advantages of the interactivity the internet offers?

Barack Obama spoke a lot of hopeful words this past weekend in announcing his candidacy in front of the Illinois statehouse. The quote at the top of this posting makes me hopeful that we unionists can make 2008 the year that unions really make a difference in presidential politics. That way we can make even more of a difference in the lives of this country’s working class (click here to see some of the differences we already make).

The number one way to make that happen is to get intimately involved in the effort to elect a president who will be good for labor and the hardworking men and women the labor movement fights for every day. You can start right now. Find out more about a candidate who supports the rights of working people (Click here for a list of current Democratic candidates). Then find ways to support that candidate.

Send some money.

Volunteer your time.

Just share your enthusiasm for someone you believe in.

Do something to help advance the agenda of labor-friendly candidates and causes in the upcoming presidential election. Do something to make the voice of the working people heard by the people running for office. This way you’ll be doing something to mend the cracks in the American economy so that some day no one else will have to slip through them.

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Election Season Approaches

Posted on September 27th, 2006

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
-Plato

There will be many important decisions to be made this election season, whether in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Bob Casey and Rick Santorum, the governor’s race between Ed Rendell and Lynn Swann, or any of the vital matchups in more localized contests for offices ranging from school board to Congress. All of these races are relevant to your future as someone who works for a living. If you aren’t registered to vote yet, time is running out. (Click here to register.)

And don’t forget that ballots for the Teamsters international elections will be in the mail over the next week or two. Don’t forget to make your voice heard by filling out your ballot and sending it in, following all the enclosed instructions. Click here for the official campaign literature from the I.B.T. website. Click here for the candidate forum videos.

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Quotables: Clarence Darrow

Posted on September 24th, 2006

“With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.”

Click here to learn more about Clarence Darrow

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