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TONY VITALE  LU 614 IBEW POLITICAL COORDINATOR


Political Coordinator Tony Vitale
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We can change the direction of this country!  EVERY VOICE COUNTS!   Please give us just a few hours of your time.
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INTERNATIONAL IBEW ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
 

Barack Obama: The Best Choice for Working Families

IBEW Endorses Democratic Candidate, Vows All-Out Push

Washington – The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers today joined in organized labor’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States.

"Our union deliberately did not endorse a candidate in the primaries because we wanted our members to listen to all the candidates and participate in the process. Now is the time to join with the labor movement to unite behind the candidate who offers the best choice to reverse the disastrous policies of the past eight years," said IBEW International President Edwin D. Hill. "The issues are clear. We as a people face difficult choices on health care, energy policy and building jobs and opportunity in a world increasingly bound by economic and environmental issues. Barack Obama offers positive leadership to navigate our way into the future instead of continuing the failures of the past."

The IBEW has been engaged in vigorous training at the local level in order to increase voter registration and participation by members and their families. The union is committed to its largest mobilization effort ever for pro-worker candidates up and down the ballot.

"We want to engage our members and all working people on the need for action on the issues that make a difference in our daily lives," added Hill. It is time to move beyond name calling and division so that our country can take positive action on the challenges we face."


With 10.5 million members from every walk of life, the AFL-CIO has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

Barack Obama’s record demonstrates he is a champion for working families and his proposals will improve life for generations of working people and our children. Barack Obama says, “Politics didn’t lead me to working folks; working folks led me to politics.” He was raised by a working mother and grandparents, worked as a community organizer in a Chicago neighborhood devastated by the closing of steel mills, fought for working families in the Illinois State Senate and earned a 98 percent AFL-CIO voting record as a U.S. senator. Barack Obama is not someone who just talks the talk—he walks the walk with working families, on picket lines, in organizing campaigns and in bargaining for a better life.
 
Learn more about his record, proposals and background at MeetObama08.

With his emphasis on what America once again can be, and his commitment to lead for all rather than the few, Obama has reinstilled hope for a better future and inspired millions of new voters.

If ever working families needed change we can believe in, it is now. Working families are struggling in an economy that works for the few, not the many. We’re squeezed by stagnant wages, soaring costs for health care, gas and food and the sellout of America’s middle class.

With 80 percent of the public saying our country is headed in the wrong direction, it’s time to turn around America. And the first step is electing Barack Obama.

Find out more and take action at MeetObama08.

This is a make-or-break election. We cannot afford to allow the destructive politics and policies of the Bush administration to continue. We need an economy that works for working families—with health care, good jobs, fair rules for global trade, a robust middle class and the opportunity for every worker to join a union and bargain for a better life.

Barack Obama will lead the change we need.

In solidarity,

John J. Sweeney

 

 

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