PA CONFERENCE OF TEAMSTERS

Teamsters' Massive Election Push for Change Helps Lead Obama to Historic Victory

November 4, 2008

(Washington, D.C.) – The Teamsters, the world’s most powerful labor union, unleashed its largest election mobilization in history, helping land Barack Obama in the White House and putting worker-friendly candidates in key offices at every level in the country.
"Our 1.4 million members demanded change and we marshaled our forces in unprecedented numbers for this historic election,” said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. “There is no doubt that we made the difference. I congratulate Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden on their well-deserved victory, and our Teamster members who worked tirelessly on their behalf.”
More than 40,000 Teamsters volunteered for the union’s massive member mobilization efforts. Hoffa and General Secretary-Treasurer Tom Keegel barnstormed key battleground states across the country on multiple trips, talking to Teamster members and motivating them to volunteer and go to the polls for Obama.
Additionally, the Teamsters’ impressive get-out-the-vote push included:

>More than 2.6 million direct mail pieces 
> More than 1.6 million phone calls 
> More than 40,000 volunteers 
> More than 1 million Teamster job sites visited 
> 54,687 Teamsters signed up for election text messaging 
> 4.5 million doors knocked as part of Change to Win

Also, Teamsters conducted precinct walks, canvassed neighborhoods, drove voters to the polls and countless other activities. The union also incorporated new technology, like text messaging, predictive dialer phone banking, national and targeted-state interactive teleforums and microtargeting of swing voters.
"This is a great day -- a historic day," Hoffa said. "Now let's get this country unified and working for regular, middle-class Americans again. We elected a great man, but we can’t stop here because our real work starts now.”

HARD WORK BY THE PA CONFERENCE OF TEAMSTERS AFFILIATES, JOINT COUNCIL NO. 40, JOINT COUNCIL NO. 53 AND THE IBT PAYS OFF. LISTED BELOW ARE THE RESULTS FROM OUR CONFERENCE STATES OF PA, DE, NJ & WV

PA RESULTS

(Washington, DC, White House) Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.

His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.

After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.

He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.

President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.

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President Cardullo leads 200 Teamsters to the Governor's doorstep to SAVE THE TURNPIKE

Back on June 19, 2008 the PA Conference of Teamsters flanked the Capitol to let the elected officials know we were strongly against the sale or lease of the Turnpike and that we would return to the Capitol in force if this issue arose again. Well, on April 29, 2008 over two hundred officers and agents from the affiliated Conference Locals, led by President Cardullo, converged on the State Capitol to, once again, let them know the Teamsters are against the sale or lease of the Turnpike and we mean business! 200 boisterous Teamsters marched right up to the Governor's office inside the Capitol. See additional photos from 4/29/08.

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