Labor & Employment Law

Atlanta Unions Help Boost Candidate from ?No-Name? to Mayor

By Mike Hall

When Kasim Reed was sworn in as mayor of Atlanta on Monday, he’d come a long way for a candidate whom the Atlanta Journal Constitution said had “nearly zero name recognition” months earlier.

The get-out-the-vote drive by the unions of the Atlanta, North Georgia Central Labor Council was a key reason voters not only knew his name on Election Day, but pulled the lever by his name.

Reed’s deputy campaign manager, Rashad Taylor, says union support was critical.

No mayor has won without the support of labor.

Read about the successful campaign in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).