Virginia Unionists to Concentrate on Beating Right To Work

Amid reports that Virginia may soon be taken off the national “swing state” list in the presidential race and ceded to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Virginia unionists have decided to concentrate this fall on defeating a right to work state constitutional amendment referendum. “NoVA Labor has been phone-banking members all summer,” reports NoVA Labor president Dan Duncan. “We will ratchet up to daily walks and phone-banking immediately after Labor Day.” The state fed will campaign for “No On 1!” – “1” is the ballot number of RTW this fall – federation President Doris Crouse-Mays said, as State AFL-CIO delegates met in Williamsburg. “Virginia’s Constitution is a sacred document and does not need to be changed,” a state fed fact sheet on the RTW referendum says. “This amendment is simply the latest move in the partisan political trend to attack working families.”  - PAI; photos courtesy Virginia AFL-CIO

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