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The AFL-CIO is planning an expanded effort to mobilize nonunion workers in this year’s elections to help Democrats retain Senate control and to erode Republicans’ majority in the House, the labor federation’s president said.
It’s a strategy that hinges on the growing clout of Working America, an 11-year-old affiliate for workers who aren’t union members, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said. It also continues to capitalize on labor’s ability to raise unlimited funds for some political activities as a result of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling.
“We will be reaching out to a greater number of nonunion people this year than we’ve ever done before,” Trumka said today at Bloomberg Government meeting with reporters and editors in Washington. “We will be using our normal mechanism for union members but we’ll be reaching out to nonunion members to educate them to mobilize them to get them to the polls as well.”
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Trumka said the Working America affiliate stands to be a powerful force in the elections. It now has about 3.2 million members, according to the group, and Trumka said those members are heavily Democratic.
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“In the last election our education mobilization program with them was actually very successful,” Trumka said.
Bloomberg
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