Tom Barrett teams up with Workers to get out the Vote

For Immediate Release
October 12, 2010
Contact: Karen Hickey, 414-418-5485

Barrett thanks Labor 2010 volunteers as they talk with union members one-on-one

EAU CLAIRE, WI – Gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett visited with dozens of Eau Claire area labor activists this evening, as volunteers contacted fellow union members about the mid-term elections. Barrett thanked union members for their continued dedication and encouraged members to cast an informed vote on November 2nd.

“Our goal is simple. We are fighting to elect candidates who will support working families,” explained Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “We believe that Tom Barrett will protect workers’ rights and stop Wisconsin jobs from being outsourced. He has a plan which will create 180,000 new jobs during his first term by investing in job training and green technologies, as well as cutting through red tape on new construction. That is the kind of leadership that we need to jumpstart our economy.”

Today’s member-to-member phone bank and labor walk are part of the Wisconsin Labor 2010 political outreach program. –The program is the largest voter mobilization effort in the state, reaching union households daily through telephone calls, local union mail, door-to-door walks, and worksite leafleting. Since July, volunteers from Wisconsin State AFL-CIO affiliated unions have reach out to tens of thousands of working families each week, all in an effort to elect candidates who will stand against corporate greed and rebuild our struggling middle-class.

The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO represents 250,000 workers from over 1,000 local unions across Wisconsin. The mission of the organization is to improve the lives of working families by bringing economic justice to the workplace and creating social justice for all Wisconsinites.

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