The local hosts breakfasts at a local restaurant before leafleting, and invites spouses, significant others and children to get involved. The union picks up the tab. You can t imagine the different friendships that have developed from this. People who work in different city departments get an hour to sit down and visit over breakfast, find out about the other s kids. Not everyone who gets involved goes door to door.
Some people make phone calls, others make yard signs.
The union now boasts some 50 regular activists, folks who turn out about once a month for rallies, leafleting and other union activities. But all this is threatened by the deceptively named Paycheck Protection Act. Schulte believes the national legislation is a direct attack on working men and women who ve had successes like theirs. For now, however, Local 1132 is free to support candidates who will promote the best interests of working families. Inspired by their success two years before, members turned out in force to select and support pro-Labor candidates.