Labor Union Blog

WIN Week In Review November 9 -11, 2007

By Doug Cunningham

[Sweeney]: “Hundreds of thousands of working families mobilized to change the state’s direction and oust anti-worker governor Ernie Fletcher.”
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Steve Beshear, the labor-backed candidate for Kentucky governor, beat the incumbent Republican by a landslide and union voters provided that overwhelming margin of victory.
Faye Liebermann, a retired CWA Verizon worker from Kentucky, was part of the big voter mobilization effort that ousted Kentucky’s GOP governor.