AFL-CIO Announces Major New Push to Expose McCain's Economic Record

"McCain Revealed" Grassroots Campaign Kicks Into High Gear with Nationwide Door-to-Door Canvass to 200,000 Union Members and Families

On May 8th, The AFL-CIO announced plans for a major new push to expose Sen. John McCain's economic record and disastrous health care proposals, which includes a massive door-to-door canvass to 200,000 union swing voters in 22 battleground states over the next two weekends. 

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka and Executive VP Arlene Holt Baker will join 6,200 union volunteers going door-door in 125 locations nationwide on May 10 and May 17 to discuss McCain's record on key issues including health care, job creation, trade policy and retirement security.  The effort is part of the AFL-CIO “McCain Revealed” campaign, the nation’s largest mobilization to educate voters on McCain’s economic positions and urge McCain to shift course.

“Sen. McCain’s economic path would lead to disaster for America's working families,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said. “He wants to tax health care benefits and supports unfair trade policies that send family-supporting jobs overseas. It's time for McCain to tune out the corporate and insurance industry lobbyists who hold sway in his campaign and start listening to the real concerns of working people.”

Volunteers will focus on McCain’s health care proposals when visiting union voters at the door, highlighting his intent to tax employer-based health care, which would elevate costs and drastically reduce coverage. McCain’s plan also would push workers into the private market to fight big insurance companies on their own.

“McCain’s plan will create a new tax on working families by making employer-provided health benefits part of taxable income,” the AFL-CIO canvass literature states. “Don’t let McCain undermine your health care.”