CWAers in Pennsylvania Deliver Strong Message to Senator Specter

CWA members joined with hundreds of other union activists in a statewide blitz across Pennsylvania this week to remind Sen. Arlen Specter that workers' support for Specter's reelection in 2010 depends upon his support for the Employee Free Choice Act.

In just two days, members of Locals 13000 and 13500 handed out more than 10,000 "Arlen Specter: Our Jobs Matter Too!" leaflets, blanketing airports, bus and train stations. Today, CWAers are spreading the word to fans at the Philadelphia Phillies baseball game, encouraging Pennsylvanians to call Specter's office and urge him to support Employee Free Choice. Click here for a copy.

CWA members also placed more than 1,000 lawn signs in yards around Philadelphia, including in Specter's own neighborhood. Members of Locals 13000 and 13500 also hung the message on large banners from busy highway overpasses in Philadelphia and its four surrounding counties.

"Sen. Specter will get our message loud and clear," said District 13 Vice President Ed Mooney. "He will know that he cannot count on support from union members if he does not support us on our most critical issue in decades." CWA has collected signatures of support for Employee Free Choice from ten of the state's Democratic Party chairs.

As a Republican, Sen. Specter was a sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act and voted for the bill two years ago. Specter recently switched parties and became a Democrat.