Big labor mobilizing Tea Party alternative

[babsbunny]

Big labor mobilizing Tea Party alternative

By Jim Acosta and Rachel Streitfeld, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/01/labor.movement.strategy/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_politics

Bensalem, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- It sounds like a political classified ad.

"Wanted: unemployed voters." That's the message from one of the nation's biggest labor unions, the AFL-CIO.

Between now and Election Day, the union's community outreach organization known as Working America will be recruiting jobless Americans for a new political movement.

The idea? To match the energy of the conservative Tea Party movement. The goal? To keep Democrats in power in Washington.

"We want to give people a choice," said Kim McMurry, a union organizer with Working America.

[madrchsod]

1. a little to late..should have started earlier

[pintobean]

2. The AFL-CIO is not a labor union.

It is a federation of labor unions.
No wonder confidence in the news media is so low. They can't even get the simple facts straight.

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