Labor 2010 Women's GOTV Postcard Campaign

September 17, 2010

A union member participates in the woman-to-woman GOTV postcard drive.

Women have power. Women have even more power when they vote! Join the 2010 Women’s Get-Out-The-Vote Postcard Campaign so we can make a difference on Election Day. Here’s how:

• Invite other union women and friends to your union hall, home, local coffee shop, office or other gathering place on any day from September 6 through October 10.
• You will be given postcards, a list of names and addresses, information sheets on important issues to get the conversation going during your gathering and sample postcard messages.
• As you talk with your friends, ask them to fill out (in their own handwriting) 20 postcards. You and your guests will write messages and address the cards.
• You don't even need to worry about stamps. At the end of the event, you place the cards in a special stamped envelope and drop them in the mail.

That's all it takes! The postcard campaign is a coordinated effort by the AFL-CIO Civil, Human and Women's Rights Department and Working America, AFL-CIO's community partner, to increase voter turnout among union women.

By sending handwritten postcards to union women who are infrequent voters urging them to get out and vote on November 2nd, we will make a difference!

If you want to want to hold your own postcard parties or events to help increase voter turnout by union women voters in key states, contact Vivian Smith at vsmith@aflcio.org or at 202-637-5131. The deadline for completing events is Oct. 10.

For more, see this post on the AFL-CIO Now Blog.