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Political Coordinator Tony Vitale
at Labor Walk
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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
International
IBEW Political/Legislative Action Center
AFL-CIO
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