CWAers to Host, Attend Hundreds of House Parties on Aug. 28

A great opportunity for CWAers and locals to build support for Labor 2008 comes on Aug. 28, when Senator Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President before 75,000 people in Denver. CWA's Executive Board is asking all local leaders and staff to host or attend a house party – a local union or neighborhood get-together – that night.

Besides watching the speech and sharing the enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy, CWAers can sign up neighbors and members for the Million Member Mobilization to support the Employee Free Choice Act, enlist volunteers for CWA's neighborhood walks and Labor 2008 campaign, and talk about how we'll win real health care reform and other goals.

CWA will have information kits with materials ready for all who request them. In some areas, CWAers will be joining with members of our Alliance – the UAW, United Steel Workers and Professional and Technical Engineers. Alliance unions already have been working together in election activities; the congressional victories in Louisiana and Mississippi are a good example of the political work members of those unions will be doing over the next three months in seven target states.