AFSCME BACKS OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

On June 19, AFSCME's International Executive Board endorsed Barack Obama for President. As a U.S. Senator from Illinois, Obama has a 100 percent AFSCME voting record.

"Barack Obama has the strength and experience to take back the White House for America's working families," said International Vice President Eliot Seide. "He's right on the issues that AFSCME members care about - ending privatization, fully funding public services and supporting the workers who provide them, and guaranteeing that everyone in our country has quality, affordable health care."

"During the primary, we backed Hillary Clinton and we showed that when our union makes an endorsement, we back it up with everything we've got," said Seide. "That's exactly what we're going to do for Obama. When our members mobilize, their activism is second to none. We have the troops, the resources and the political will to elect Senator Obama, defeat John McCain and end the era of George Bush."

Watch Senator Obama's address to the AFSCME 37th International Convention at http://www.afscme.org/members/11035.cfm.