Workers Revved Up to Take Colorado Back in 2008

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/21/workers-revved-up-to-take-colorado-back-in-2008/

With out-of-state special interests pushing an anti-worker agenda for the November election in Colorado, union activists are coming together to take back the state. Thanks to Mike Cerbo, executive director of the Colorado AFL-CIO, for this blog about a political training session last weekend in Denver.


Union members from across Colorado joined in political training to take back the state.


Last weekend, you could hear the beginning of a righteous noise rumbling across Colorado, as nearly 200 union members packed into the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 68 hall for a two-day political training for the Colorado Labor 2008 campaign.

Local union leaders, coordinators, potential release staffers and rank-and-file activists from 24 unions or union-related groups from across the state participated in the training in Denver, attending workshops on recruiting and retaining volunteers, moving volunteers to activism, member-to-member mobilization and much more.

The mood of the training was highly charged excitement. Many activists predicted that this year, with such an early start in the political season, the Colorado labor movement would educate more frontline activists—and give them more and stronger tools—than ever before to mobilize against anti-working family candidates and policies.

Union leaders joined shoulder to shoulder with rank-and-file activists from the various unions to attend workshops on “Local Union Mail & Political Communications,” “Voter-Contact Legal Do’s and Don’ts,” “Fraud Watch Training,” “Building Activism at the Local Union” and more.

FULL story at link.

[patrice]

1. Go Union!! Solidarity!

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