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Why Labor's Rank and File Won't Campaign for Obama

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their membership will spring into action to re-elect President

Obama. Union members are no different than the millions of non-

organized workers across the country who've experienced zero

benefit from having Obama as their President. Union members, like

non-union members, saw their living standards fall under

Obama. Many union members remain unemployed, like non-union

members, due to Obama's lack of action to create jobs. To think that

these union members will use their free time to phone bank and door

knock for Obama borders on delusion. 

Rank-and-file union members have observed that giving money to

and campaigning for President Obama does not "build power," but

destroys it.  

For example, it is demoralizing for union workers to campaign for

Democrats and then have to organize protests against these very

same Democrats only months later when, for example, they move to

implement cuts in services, jobs and reduce health care and or

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Shamus Cooke is a social service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org)
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