The Nov. 5 national election date is approaching and IAM members have been in the city of Philadelphia and the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The AFL-CIO is coordinating a massive canvass of all union members in the area and urging them to vote for pr-labor candidates. The teams of union members are walking neighborhoods and giving out election information to households asking them if they have made a plans to vote.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler took time to meet with the union members and thank them for their efforts to talk to union members about voting.
“I’m making sure unions are strong so the next generation of workers have the ability to join,” said Fiedler
More than 50 members from several AFL-CIO unions gathered this past Saturday at the Philadelphia’s Seafarers International Hall for the weekly labor walk. The members were given instructions on where they would be going for the morning midday action in the city. Various union members from several AFL-CIO unions took time to talk to the IAM Communications Department to explain why this election is important to them.
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