Brew Town Is a Union Town: Milwaukee’s Labor Movement Knocks on Doors to Win Election
[Story from the AFL-CIO]
Milwaukee’s union members came together on Saturday, October 22 to campaign in the key battleground state of Wisconsin. AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride (pictured above, center-left) and Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President Stephanie Bloomingdale (AFT; center) kicked off the event with members of AFSCME; United Steelworkers (USW); Communications Workers of America (CWA); Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT); Laborers (LIUNA); United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW); International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); Workers United-SEIU; and the Alliance for Retired Americans.
With so many important ramifications for Wisconsin and the country, union volunteers hit 600 doors in the Milwaukee area to encourage voters to vote for labor’s endorsed candidates in this election. They campaigned for Gov. Tony Evers, U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and other pro-labor candidates.
