International Visitors Observe Milwaukee Union Movement’s GOTV Efforts

Greg Hinds, of USW Local 2-1324, explains a walk packet to Anas A. Binsaeed (center), researcher, Shura Council, Inter-Parliamentary Unit of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Abdelwahad Driouche (right), administrative adviser and Budget Analysis Office unit coordinator for the Parliament of Morocco.

Sue Ledbetter, Wisconsin state political director, spent the morning with overseas guests visiting this country to see the get-out-the-vote process.

The labor walk and member-to-member phone bank staged out of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council had the honor of welcoming two international visitors this morning.

Abdelwahad Driouche, administrative adviser and Budget Analysis Office unit coordinator for the Parliament of Morocco, and Anas Binsaeed, researcher, Shura Council, Inter-Parliamentary Unit of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, are in Milwaukee as part of an international group observing the U.S. electoral process. They stopped by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council to see how union members are getting out the vote.

Steve Kwaterski, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Labor 2008 southeastern Wisconsin political coordinator, and Ryan Neibauer, AFSCME Take Back America staffer, gave an overview of the Labor 2008 member-to-member program, while Greg Hinds, of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2-1324, explained a walk packet to the visitors. Kwaterski then showed the call center with the predictive dialers, explaining how much more efficient such a computer-based system is over traditional landlines. 

Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, some 1,349 volunteers made 68,502 phone calls and knocked on 35,853 union members’ doors as part of the Wisconsin union movement’s get-out-the-vote efforts.

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