The AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America unites the union movement with workers who don’t have the benefit of an AFL-CIO union on the job. In just two years, Working America has grown to 1 million members in 12 cities and is poised to grow to 2 million by the end of 2006.
Working America members work in partnership with the unions of the AFL-CIO.Through door-to-door canvassing, regular e-mail outreach, a newsletter and its website (www.workingamerica.org), Working America is building a new source of grassroots worker power to ensure working families have good jobs, affordable health care, world-class education, secure retirements, real homeland security and more.
The 2005 gubernatorial election in Virginia provides a good example of Working America’s strength. More than 50,000 Virginians joined Working America in just five months and played a vital role in registering voters and getting out the vote on Election Day. In Northern Virginia alone, Working America volunteers reached some 600 to 800 voters a night in the last two months of the campaign. They helped put Tim Kaine, a friend of working families, in the governor’s mansion with a 52–46 percent margin.
Be part of America’s largest, most powerful and most effective organization for working families—the AFL-CIO. Call 1-877-90-UNITY (1-877-908-6489) or 202-639-6245, fax 202-637-5062 or e-mail unity@aflcio.org.
