For Immediate Release
October 12, 2010
Contact: Karen Hickey, 414-418-5485
Barrett thanks Labor 2010 volunteers as he talks with union members one-on-one
MILWAUKEE, WI – Milwaukee Mayor and Gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett visited with dozens of Milwaukee area labor activists this morning, 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.
“Tom Barrett is the only candidate in the governor’s race who supports the public services that working families rely on,” says Sheila Cochran, Secretary-Treasurer of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council. “We cannot afford to let Scott Walker mismanage state government the way that he has mismanaged Milwaukee County.”
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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