Everybody wants a better future ... and each of us can do something about it. It starts at the ballot box.

In our democracy, each vote counts equally. Your vote counts just as much as a millionaire's does and the votes of working families, added together, can make the government work for us.

The 1996 elections drew 2.3 million more union voters to the polls than in the previous presidential election, kicked 18 anti-worker representatives out of office and came within 10,000 votes of stripping Newt Gingrich of his speakership and majority.

The stakes are high in the 1998 elections. We need to continue to strengthen working families' agenda:

Fair Wages for Working Families

Health Care Protection

Retirement Income Security

Equal Pay for Women

Safe and Healthy Workplaces

Workers' Right to Organize

Big business, Republican congressional leaders and other anti-worker warriors have a much different agenda, driven partially by greed and partially by the desire for revenge for labor's past political and legislative successes. Its planks include:

• Steep Medicare and Social Security cuts to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations;
• Privatization of the public sector;
• Trade agreements that sell out workers and the environment for bigger corporate profits;
• Right-to-work laws;
• Dismantling workers' health and safety protections;
• Eliminating overtime pay and the 40-hour week;
• Attacking collective bargaining through the Team Act; and
• Restricting union dues to squelch workers' voices in the political process.
  
  

Make your voices heard. Vote for representatives who support the working families' agenda.