The senior executive from the nation’s largest labor group walked door-to-door through a middle-class neighborhood in Northern Virginia carrying a twin message for union households.
On Election Day, urged Tefere Gebre, vote not only for Hillary Clinton but also against a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would weaken organized labor.
Standing in a steady drizzle on the stoop of a white house in Woodbridge, Gebre made the sale to postal worker Michael Brown.
“Anything that comes up against unions, I’m voting no,” Brown, 68, assured Gebre. Without unions, Brown said, “it means employers can fire you for no reason at all.”
The involvement of Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, underlined the high stakes for unions as they try to end a string of political defeats in state elections across the country.
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