Kentucky Union Members Rally in Support of Steve Beshear to elect a working family-friendly governor

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/14/kentucky-union-members-rally-in-support-of-steve-beshear/

Bernard Pollack, AFL-CIO field coordinator, sends us this report on the campaign to elect a working family-friendly governor in Kentucky.

“Union members and their families will decide who is the next governor of Kentucky,” Kentucky State AFL-CIO President William Londrigan told more than 230 union members Tuesday as they packed the Machinists (IAM) Lodge 154 hall to rally in support of gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear and Daniel Mongiardo, candidate for lieutenant governor.


AFSCME members met with Steve Beshear (right) on Tuesday.

“With 350,000 union members, householders, retirees and Working America members in the state of Kentucky, the labor movement will be one-quarter of all votes cast on Election Day,” Londrigan said.

Beshear and Mongiardo won raucous applause by grabbing pens and signing a pledge to support the Employee Free Choice Act and to publicly support collective bargaining and workers’ freedom to form unions in Kentucky.

FULL story at link.