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September/October 2004 America@work Table of Contents

America@work, the official publication of the AFL-CIO, is designed to inspire and support front-line union leaders and activists with tips, tools and news you can use in the fight to build a strong voice for America's working families.

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    In the September/October issue of America@work:
      
     
    A Movement in Action
    AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney introduces this special section in America@work that highlights how union members are fighting as never before in their precincts and at polling places to make America work for working families.
    Photo Credit: Stewart Halperin
     
      
    Working Families Are Taking Back America
    In an unprecedented nationwide voter education effort, union volunteers and working family voters are mobilizing to take back the White House and Congress.
    Photo Credit: Christopher Millette
     
     
    Reports from the Field
    Union volunteers taking part
    in grassroots political action describe their passion for ensuring good jobs, affordable health care and other working family priorities are the big winners this election.
    Photo Credit: Roadell Hickman
     
     

    We Won't Let Them Steal It Again
    The AFL-CIO, its member unions and allied organizations have launched an unprecedented national effort to ensure the
    2004 elections will not repeat
    the 2000 election disaster in
    which millions of people were
    denied their votes.

    Photo Credit: Jake Schoellkopf
    Currents
     
    America West Workers Choose Teamsters
     
    Workers Continue Fight to Save Overtime Pay
     
    UAW, USWA Join ‘Blue-Green’ Alliance
    Toolbox
     
    Compare presidential candidates and see what’s at stake this election—and get the word out—with these two reproducible fliers
    Homepage
     
    Publications: Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule

    Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush
     
    Websightings: Check the facts behind assertions made by the Bush administration and find out how Bush administration policies squeeze the middle class
     
    Videos: "Labor 2004: America Needs a Change!"

    " Show Us the Jobs"
     
    Buttons, Bumper Stickers and more: Get customizable union-made campaign gear
     
    Music: "Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2"

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    From America@work,
    September/October 2004.
     
     
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