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Article: Labor's new tactic in stumping for Gore; Union leaders hope shoe-leather approach will renew clout at the ballot box. Big business girds to fight back.(USA)(Election 2000)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 12, 2000
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As interest groups get ready for tough fall elections, organized labor is taking a page out of the religious right's playbook.
Soon, union leaders in workplaces around the country - a majority of them sympathetic to the Democrats - will be distributing fliers that contrast the candidates, just as Christian conservatives for years have used places of worship to influence church-goers with compare-and-contrast voter guides during election season.
For labor, though, issues of church-state separation and tax-exempt status don't enter the mix. And just as the religious right has seen its influence wane in the past few years, labor is counting on a renewed ...