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Elections Are About Choices

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District 3 Vice President Judy Dennis leaflets and talks to CWAers at the Yellow Pages operation in Tucker, Georgia.

CWA District 3 Vice President Judy Dennis, Local 3204 activists and CWA District 3 staff were out early this week, leafleting CWA members about the November elections and exactly what's at stake. Leaflets were distributed at an AT&T call center, an AT&T Mobility Center and the Yellow Pages operation, all in the Atlanta area.

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Members of Local 3204 are ready to head out to three AT&T facilities in the Atlanta area to leaflet for Election 2012.

CWAers were glad to have the opportunity to talk with Dennis, and expressed their opinions on lots of issues, the district said. More leafleting is planned between now and Election Day, along with visits to customer service centers throughout the district to mark Customer Service Month.

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District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings talks up President Obama and distributes leaflets to 800 CWA members at St. Louis call center.

In St. Louis, District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings, Local 6300 President Mike Mehringer, local union activists and CWA staff hand-billed the 800 CWA members at an AT&T call center in St. Louis this week. Activists talked with members and distributed flyers that contrasted the "two visions for the middle class" of President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.

Cummings was meeting with customer service workers as part of Customer Service Month.

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President Cohen talks with members of Local 2108 at Verizon's Chesapeake Complex in Silver Spring, Md.

CWA President Larry Cohen met with CWAers at the Verizon Chesapeake Complex in Silver Spring, Md. Cohen and CWA Local 2108 President Marilyn Irwin were on hand as workers heard from Democrat John Delaney, the CWA-backed candidate for Congress in Maryland's 6th district. Cohen and Irwin also met with CWA members, talking about workplace issues for call center workers.

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CWA Political Director Rafael Navar and CWA activists meet with CenturyLink workers in Phoenix on the presidential race and the Carmona-Flake Senate race.

CWA Political Director Rafael Navar has been meeting with CWAers in Florida, Arizona, New Mexico and other states to talk about candidates and issues that are important to CWA and working families.

In Phoenix, Local 7019 members, Arizona political coordinator Joe Seeley and other CWA activists leafleted and met with CenturyLink workers to talk about what's at stake in the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, and well as the tight Senate race between Democrat Richard Carmona and Republican Jeff Flake. Read more about the issues at www.cwavotes.org.

CWA activists have leafleted over 700 worksites with election materials.