Reply #2: The AFL-CIO Recently launched Member-to-Member Walks [View All]

to educate and energize union members:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=367&topic_id=10976

Around the country this Saturday, thousands of union members will get a visit from their fellow union members and have a chance to learn about the issues they care about in November’s elections.

This weekend’s door-to-door canvass is at the center of the AFL-CIO union movement’s effort to mobilize more than 6,000 union volunteers to knock on 200,000 doors and engage union members in 20 states this spring...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=367&topic_id=11121

Hundreds of Activists Launch Member Mobilization Walks

Hundreds of union members launched the biggest union mobilization yet in the 2008 political season with the first round of door-to-door walks, part of the AFL-CIO Labor 2008 political mobilization program.

Union volunteers in more than 20 states shared information on key working family issues, like health care and the economy, reaching thousands of union members in states such as Indiana, New Hampshire, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio. ...

The AFL-CIO Labor 2008 political program is set to become the largest union political mobilization in history,...