FACTS from CHANGE TO WIN

CHANGE TO WIN: MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE HOOSIER STATE


Change to Win members are waging an aggressive effort to help Barack Obama make a strong showing in the Hoosier State. With nearly 30,000 members in Indiana, Change to Win unions have put in place an extensive campaign to turn out members and working family voters for Obama and to help restore the American Dream for America's workers.

In Indiana:

-- More than 1,500 Change to Win members and volunteers working to contact voters door-to-door or over the phone

-- More than 60,000 doors knocked and hundreds of thousands of direct mail pieces sent to Democratic households throughout the state

-- Hundreds of Change to Win members and volunteers conducting aggressive labor-to-labor canvass programs in Northwest Indiana, South Bend and Indianapolis

-- Recruiting hundreds of volunteers and helping manage key get-out-the-vote staging locations, including Northwest Indiana and Indianapolis

-- UFCW, UNITE HERE, SEIU and Teamsters members conducting member-to-member education and mobilization efforts at worksites throughout the state

-- Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa campaigned in Gary, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis speaking to members about jobs, the economy, the nation's failed trade policies, and to turn out the vote for Obama