Unions Announce Grassroots Election Campaign
Transportation unions plan to back candidates in 34 congressional districts as part of the AFL-CIO’s efforts to elect a more pro-labor Congress and White House.
The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department announced its grassroots lobbying plans during the organization’s third regular convention held July 21-22 in Washington, D.C.
TTD will keep its activist network intact after the fall elections, using it to lobby lawmakers on key transportation legislation, added Ed Wytkind, the organization’s executive director.
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The effort will “put a human face on the interests of transportation workers as e-commerce and new technologies are dehumanizing our economy,” said Ed Dubroski, chair of TTD’s Legislative Activist Committee and president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
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