UNION CAMPAIGNING...UNBELIEVABLE!!!

My mail man is an amazing specimen of a union member; He's a conservative! We talk politics from time to time and today he brought me the letter below. PLEASE read it and send it to your friends. This is sent to hundreds of thousands of people and we have to know what we're fighting; Not only 95% of the media is leftist, but every network, all but 2 cable channels, most magazines and newspapers, the news clips during radio shows show their bias, etc etc. (By the way, would you call AARP ads agenda-driven? I would!) It's legal for a union to be campaigning , I suppose, but don't be surprised why working friends and family hold their views. They don't look into facts and they're being indoctrinated on a minute-by-minute basis. (wait till you see that you CAN use union dues to campaign...down below this letter....read that, too!)

Here's the letter from the American Postal Workers Union:

Dear APWU Member:

The paycheck you receive on Sept. 19 will include a Cost-of-Living Adjustment totalling $1,477 per year. This wage increase will be the largest raise in the history of postal bargaining, and one of the largest COLA increases in our nation's history.

Raises like this one have made our jobs among the most sought-after in our communities. Our healthcare coverage, retirement benefits, and protection against layoffs provide security is shared by very few workers.

However, the Postal Service is planning "network realignment," and there are challenges to six-day mail delivery, threatss to universal sevice, and attacks on the Postal Service's exclusive right to deliver to mailboxes. These challenges threaten our jobs - your job - and the future of the USPS as we know it.

And we are not alone: Working families across the country are facing high gas prices, a mortgage crisis, an economy in shambles, and lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The November election will be the most important one in decades. Our nation is at a crossroads; the differences between the presidential candidates are clear, and we have a real chance to elect a true advocate of working people. And electing more worker-friendly members of Congress will make a fundamental difference in our lives.

To help elect candidates who will support us; to protect our COLA raises and other benefits; and to amplify our voice in Congress, we must have a strong political action fund. The union is not permitted to use dues money to support candidates; we rely on voluntary contributions to our Committee on Political Action (COPA). Please help by giving generously. You can complete the enclosed form and write a check, or sign up to make a modest, recurring contribution through PostalEASE.

Thank you, and thank you for being a member of the American Postal Workers Union.

In solidarity,

William Burris
President

Here's MORE: Dues CAN be used to campaign. Doesn't this give the appearance of getting around our laws?

You can do the following WITH COPA CONTRIBUTIONS!!!!: YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS:

You can use local dues or treasury money as “seed money” to help raise COPA contributions provided that your costs do not exceed 33 cents for every dollar raised.

You can spend union dues money to print and distribute literature that educates your membership on the candidates’ positions on the issues.

You can loan paid union staff to work in a campaign.

You can use dues money for non-partisan voter registration and “Get Out The Vote” drives aimed at APWU members and their families.

You can have APWU Auxiliary members and retirees as well as active APWU members conduct phone banks to raise contributions and/or pledges for COPA.

z: Please send this around......we have to do all we can. At least awaken people to what's going on. Obama should be sending money for all of this because he can't get better exposure. And, the media's made "a true advocate for working people" to be synonymous with OBAMA alone.

z