Why I Walk
15th October 2007
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Loading ...It's not easy getting out of bed on a weekend morning to spend your day going door to door talking with union members about the importance of voting. Eileen Toback, AFL-CIO political organizer/Voice@Work campaign, spent her third weekend with dozens of union activists in Northern Virginia and describes why volunteering valuable free time is hard—but necessary.
Why do union members and their families get up on Saturday mornings to visit other union members’ houses? They have the same inclination to want to sleep in on the weekend or get the long list of personal errands done. So why did 130 people from Virginia come out this past Saturday to knock on more than 1,800 union household doors?