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TWU COPE: For A Better Future
Workers have learned through bitter experience that there is a powerful link between the bread box and the ballot box. Gains won at the bargaining table or through sacrifice on the picket line can be wiped out by unwise actions of local, state or Federal legislators as well as political leaders. Today's wage increase can be erased by tomorrow's inflation. Today's job can vanish in tomorrow's wave of unemployment! Our union's front line of defense against these attacks on TWU members is COPE.
TWU's Committee On Political Education (COPE) is a Political Action Committee. The TWU COPE Committee supports candidates who are supportive of TWU members at all levels of our government; regardless if they are Republicans, Democrats or Independents. If a candidate by action or intention indicates he or she wants to provide a better life for all Transport Workers and their families, the TWU COPE Committee will help that candidate.
There is no limit on how much money TWU members can contribute to the Committee On Political Education; it is strictly voluntary. However, how much we contribute to a Federal candidate is mandated and strictly enforced by the Federal Elections Commission.
We know Big Business' Political Action Committees have more money than TWU COPE, but we have thousands of TWU members who vote...who can vote that legislator into office as well as out of office. TWU COPE money give us much more political clout when it is backed up by VOTES!
Getting TWU members to the polls with their knowledge of which candidates support their union ideas, and which candidates will help secure their jobs, depends on how involved the local is in politics. Since more and more decisions are being made by legislators who are affecting our members well-being, union officials have to make sure we elect political candidates who are pro-TWU, pro-union and not pro-big business.
Click on the other subsections for necessary tools to help run an effective political campaign. |
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