You can help defeat SB5 in Ohio! Stand up for worker rights!!!

[Scuba]

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Dear Scuba,

Election Day in Ohio, Nov. 8, is just three days from today. The morning after, America will wake up to one of two realities:

Thousands of Ohioans are stripped of their collective bargaining rights. Ohio teachers lose their ability to fight for things like smaller class sizes. Ohio firefighters no longer can negotiate for enough firefighters in the firehouse. Anti-worker governors in states across the country are emboldened and push more and more extreme attacks on working people.

OR

Thousands of us come together and beat back extreme corporate-funded attacks on Ohio workers. Ohio voters show up at the polls and forcefully reject SB 5 by voting NO on Issue 2. This sends a huge rebuke to corporate-funded governors like Ohio’s John Kasich and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker. Anti-worker governors in states across America lose momentum as their policies overwhelmingly are rejected at the polls.

Which of these realities will come to pass? It’s up to us.

The Ohio AFL-CIO has a new website that allows any volunteer with a home phone or cell phone and a computer to call a list of Ohio voters and remind them to vote NO on Issue 2. Now, we need volunteers to use the site.

To make calls, all you have to do is sit down at a computer with Internet access and a phone, sign up for an account and follow simple instructions; we’ll give you a script for your calls to Ohio voters. No training is required. But without you, all we have is an empty website. For this to work, we need you to pick up your phone and start making calls to voters.

Click here to start by asking 10 Ohio voters to show up at the polls. Remind them to vote NO on Issue 2 to repeal SB 5’s attacks on workers and collective bargaining. http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=p%2BLyDT8x8%2Bk29Yo3xCSquZ%2FOsW%2Be4RP%2B

The tool we built can’t call voters and remind them to vote without you. We need you to call. We need to collectively come together, pick up our phones and make a difference.

We know this works. We know from experience that calls from one voter to another have a real impact on elections. In several tight races in 2008 and 2010, they were the difference between winning and losing. Because this is an off-year election, which means people need to be reminded to vote, your calls will have even more impact.

With workers’ rights on the ballot, this Ohio election is about the heart and soul of America—the kind of country we live in and work in. And together, we can make sure it goes in our favor.

Jump on the phone now. Start calling voters. http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=p%2BLyDT8x8%2Bk29Yo3xCSquZ%2FOsW%2Be4RP%2B

This weekend, thousands of us committed callers are joining together—in Ohio and across America—to make a difference. But don’t assume that just because thousands are doing their part, you don’t need to help. The opposite is true—we can only win together. Don’t wake up the day after Ohio’s Election Day and feel guilty. Don’t wish you’d called voters and helped stop attacks on collective bargaining rights. Do it now.

Make at least 10 phone calls, starting right now. http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=p%2BLyDT8x8%2Bk29Yo3xCSquZ%2FOsW%2Be4RP%2B

Thanks for standing with working families.

In Solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO