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Unions To Work For POTUS This Weekend

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published November 2, 2012 at 8:55 AM EDT

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says 128-thousand volunteers will knock on doors, make phone calls, and mail fliers for President Obama and other union-friendly candidates during the final days before the election.The federation is focusing much of its effort in Ohio, where 13.4 percent of all workers belong to a union. Unions have a strong campaign infrastructure in Ohio after working last year to repeal the state's collective
bargaining law.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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