Retired IBEW Union Member Works With Steelworkers to Help Obama

Syracuse Steelworkers Help Maffei To Win

Neighbors of mine, Duke and Gloria Gehrlein live in Spanish Oaks Ocala, Fla. in the winter. Duke is a retired IBEW union member and is working Spanish Oaks for Obama. He is an adopted Steelworker and is doing a great job for us. I thought you would appreciate his hard work since we sent him USW material from D-4. He is putting it to good use. Submitted ...more

Syracuse activists assisted Congressional candidate Dan Maffei by leafleting at a plant gate early in the morning the day before the election. Maffei won the U.S. House seat for New York's 25 Congressional District after losing narrowly to Congressman Jim Walsh in 2006. Maffei said his first priority as a Congressman will be job creation. Pictured below ...more

Neither Rain, Nor Sleet Nor Snow Will Stop Canvassing in Distict 4

USW Local 8566 Phone Banking

Inclimate Weather won't stop District 4 members and staff from canvassing for votes for our candidates in New Hampshire. Pictured below, leafletting at 6:30 a.m. with USW members from Local 574 in Tilton, NH at Innovative Paper Technologies Tilton, NH is District 4 Director, William (Bill) Pienta. A few in this picture include William Pienta, Albert ...more

USW Local 8566 made great use of the Labor 2008 program all throughout this election cycle. Whether it was leafleting, phone banking, sending out local union mail, or going on the labor walks; someone from Local 8566 was always in the thick of things. George Griffin was everywhere at once these past few months doing his best to make sure that his union ...more