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:: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 ::

Union leader says 'we have to do more' Workday Minnesota
Big turnout among union households
'Union households accounted for one of every four voters--27 million voters,' Sweeney said. 'Union members voted two-to-one for Kerry, and the margin was a little bigger in battleground states. Our program was the biggest ever...I've never seen our members so energized,' he stated.

'We're going to take that energy, that momentum, that technology, that field operation and start right now building a movement that will keep turning this country around,' he declared.

Part of that effort, he said, will depend on coalitions--for getting out the vote, issues education and for making sure all votes counted--that the AFL-CIO built with the NAACP and other organizations before and during the campaign.

Not counting unionists who volunteered or worked for independent friendly groups, the AFL-CIO and its member unions mobilized 5,000 paid staffers, more than 225,000 volunteers, staffed hundreds of phone banks, knocked on 6 million doors and distributed 32 million leaflets. The phone bank at AFL-CIO headquarters finally ended at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, Election Day.

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