CWA: Obama’s a Friend to Workers, McCain a Friend to Corporations

by Seth Michaels, Oct 15, 2008

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union is reaching out to thousands of members this fall to let them know that Sen. Barack Obama will fight for working families—while Sen. John McCain will leave them behind.

A new mailer, going to 120,000 CWA households in key states, contrasts Obama’s Senate record and proposals with McCain’s on the most important issues facing working families. The mailer is part of a large-scale union mobilization effort that includes phone banks and member-to-member neighborhood walks.

In the midst of a presidential campaign marked by misleading ads, trivial coverage and under-the-radar smear campaigns, CWA is asking its members to look past the noise and pay attention to the facts.

Forget the pundits. Forget the attack ads. Just compare their records.

The mailer points out that when you look at the actual voting record and the policies the candidates have proposed, the differences are clear.

• Obama has voted to protect Social Security. McCain supported the Bush plan to privatize it.
• Obama wants to have tax and trade policies that keep jobs here. McCain voted for tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas.
• Obama supports expanding high-quality, affordable health care to everyone. McCain has proposed a new tax on health care benefits that could make our system worse.
• Obama wants to give tax relief to middle-class families, including nearly all CWA members. McCain’s tax proposals give nearly all of their benefits to big corporations and the wealthiest 2 percent.

A second CWA mailer addresses McCain’s frequent claims over the past year that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” It notes McCain would continue the disastrous Bush administration policies that have thrown our economy into crisis: deregulation of the financial markets, massive tax cuts to the wealthiest and outsourcing thousands of jobs overseas.

CWA has endorsed Obama for president, and its plan to mobilize members around the country includes a website, CWA Votes, that spells out where the candidates stand on key issues.

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