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10/29/02 VOTE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2002! Mid-term elections are less than a week away. Traditionally, turn-out for mid-term elections is low. Let's face it, its pathetic. Now, as never before, it is essential that we ALL VOTE!! And I believe it is essential, now as never before, that we vote for labor-friendly candidates. I know we all have issues that are very important to us, individually. Abortion. Gun Control. The Death Penalty. The Environment. Etc. Whether you are for or against any of these issues, and I do not doubt your passion, I am asking you to put them aside for a moment. At the end of the day, these are distractions. Leaders of both parties use these "hot button" issues, playing people against one another, to keep themselves in place. At the end of the day, what REALLY matters is whether or not you have a job, the money you have in your pocket, the standard of living you can provide to your children, and whether or not you have the right to be treated with RESPECT and DIGNITY in your workplace. If we take our eyes off the ball and vote for candidates who do not support labor (or, worse yet, choose not to vote at all), our wages will not increase, our children will not have a better life than we have, and the few rights we do have will be stripped from us. It won't happen overnight. But it will happen. It only took the anti-labor forces ONE DAY to kill ergonomics protections that took over a decade to achieve. FMLA is next. THEY don't want us to have rights. THEY don't want us to have money. Money we have is money THEY don't have. And THEY WANT IT ALL!! Please...I ask you...I BEG you...VOTE on November 5, 2002. And, please, vote for LABOR-FRIENDLY candidates. Your future, and your children's future, depend on it.
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