Trumka and George Go Door-to-Door

Tuesday October 3, 2006

National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka & Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George Will Join Union Volunteers in Plant Gate Leafleting and Door to Door Canvassing in Hershey PA, Tuesday October 3, 2006

Part of AFL-CIO’s Labor 2006 Education and Mobilization of Union Members and their families

National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, the second highest ranking Labor Leader in the nation, will be in Hershey, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 to join Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George and local union member volunteers in leafleting the Hershey Chocolate Plant beginning at 2:30 P.M. located at the West End Plant Steps adjacent to Chocolate Ave. in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Afterward, Secretary Treasurer Trumka and President George will join volunteers who will be canvassing union households in the Hershey area. The canvassers will be meeting at 4:30 P.M. at the Chocolate Workers’ Union Hall, 16 W. Caracas Avenue, Hershey, PA. They will be canvassing union members and their families at their homes in the Hershey area; distributing flyers that compare the positions of Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidates on issues important to working families.

Since July 2006, close to a million leaflets have been distributed to union workers at worksites, in communities, and neighborhoods across Pennsylvania.

Union members in Pennsylvania will continue to conduct the Labor 2006 member to member voter education and mobilization program through Election Day. This year, political volunteerism is at an all-time high as workers have become even more concerned about the direction of the nation under the leadership of President Bush and U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.

Union households are expected to represent one out of three voters in November, as they did in the 2004 Presidential election.

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