IBEW Votes 2020 Dashboard

Engage, persuade, mobilize. Everything you will need when it comes to issues and get-out-the-vote resources is available here.

Member Communications and Local Union Mail

HOW TO USE: 

After careful consideration, the IBEW International Executive Council decided to endorse Joe Biden in February. IBEW International President Lonnie R. Stephenson serves as co-chair of Biden's climate engagement advisory council. 

• This document about Joe Biden is a resource for local unions and international staff to be used in local union letters and communications.
• When it comes to working families, the difference between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence is vast
• The president has enormous executive powers; who sits in the Oval Office matters. This video enumerates the power the chief executive wields on appointments from the Supreme Court to the National Labor Relations Board to OSHA rules that affect IBEW members on the job every day. At the Membership Development Conference in early September, IBEW General Counsel Jon Newman spelled out what happens to IBEW members when politics and policy collide. 
• Biden persuasion letter, with variations tailored to construction and utility branch members, to be mailed on local union letterhead to rank-and-file members 
• Local union GOTV letter to be mailed on local union letterhead to rank-and-file members
  
  

Vice President Biden greets an IBEW member at a campaign event in Missouri.

Legislative and Policy Materials

HOW TO USE: Great resource for member information

• IBEW policy positions and bill summaries on key congressional legislation, including the PRO Act, multiemployer pension reform, infrastructure and more (January 2020)
• URGENT ACTION REQUESTED Background materials for GROW Act mobilization:
  •    IBEW letter in opposition to the GROW Act
  •    Coalition letter opposing GROW in coronavirus relief 
  •    Composite plans explainer and why composite plans are bad for workers  
  •    Telephone script for calls to Congress           
  •   Find your member of Congress by entering your zip code
  • Coalition of unions opposing the GROW Act represents tens of millions
  • House of Representatives members to target, by IVP district 
  • Actuarial study shows how composite plans jeopardize retirement security of workers, retirees
  • A 2016 White House paper on composite plans found them harmful
• Building trades letter urging coronavirus relief bill include a healthy infrastructure improvement component
• Click here for more letters in support of IBEW members 
• For specific questions about legislative issues, contact Sergio Espinosa at sergio_espinosa@ibew.org or Danielle Eckert at Danielle_Eckert@ibew.org

Data and Voter Mobilization Tools

HOW TO USE: All the resources, data tools and tutorials for Get Out the Vote Activities

• Peer-to-peer texting platforms allow you to engage on a personal level. Here's a Hustle SMS explainer and video tutorial. Here's a ThruText overview, a video as well as pricing information. Contact the National Data Tech & Tools Support Team for more information at LAN@aflcio.org.  
• LAN is a secure voter file system that allows specific targeting of union members (permission required). Need help logging on? Click here for assistance.  
• AFL-CIO Knowledge Base
• Empower Me customize and mail pre-loaded content, creating locally-branded campaigns. Here's a quick training to get started. (local unions have log-in information)  
• Working Families Toolkit pre-loaded AFL-CIO fliers and letters and other materials can be customized and downloaded with IBEW logo (contact Emilia Torre, etorre@aflcio.org)
• Action Network is a digital organizing platform used to publish messaging and organize events  
• Action Builder for organizing on the go
• www.ibewvotes2020.org: All-in-one site to find out if you are registered to vote and sign up to vote by mail.
• Power the Polls: IBEW members can be among the 250,000 poll workers needed to help staff voting locations due to the poll worker shortage. This toolkit contains sample email messages, and graphics to share.  
  • Top 50 cities for poll worker recruitment 
    
    
• Attend an AFL-CIO virtual training on worksite engagement, volunteer recruitment and more 
• workingfamiliesforBiden.com is now live, with links to ibewvotes2020.org and key Biden positions on IBEW and working family issues 
• QUESTIONS? Who to call about LAN access, opt-ins, phone banks, campaign items and more. 

IBEW President Lonnie R. Stephenson, right, and IBEW Political and Legislative Affairs Director Austin W. Keyser pose for a selfie with Joe Biden after his victory in the South Carolina primary.

Fliers and Social Media Graphics

HOW TO USE: Distribute to local union networks

• Fliers
  • American manufacturing sector entered a slump under Trump 
  • Join the IBEW for Biden-Harris phone bank event on Oct. 24 
  • Broadcasting and Telecommunications branch flier
  • Supporting the natural gas extraction industry 
  • How will Biden help the utility branch? 
  • Will the economy recover better under Trump or Biden? 
  • Construction: Biden versus Trump
  • Railroad branch: Amtrak, freight and commuter rail
  • Trump Shipyard Cuts
    
    
• Social Media graphics: IBEW graphics for IBEW members for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
• State voting resources: downloadable fliers with voting deadlines and election procedures for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. 

Campaign Materials

HOW TO USE: Signs, T-shirts, buttons for visibility

• IBEW for Biden/Harris merchandise: Items can be requested by local union business managers by completing a merchandise order form. For artwork or any IBEW for Biden/Harris merchandise questions, please contact Charles Ruehl at Charles_Ruehl@Ibew.org
• For specific questions on political candidates and state races, contact Ann Miller at Ann_Miller@ibew.org
  
  

Local Union Tools

HOW TO USE: Campaign guidance and communications for local unions 

• Campaign Do’s and Don’ts, or how to stay on the right side of the law when it comes to member to communications
• Local union release letter template
• A memo with guidance for the use of facilities and a sample local union lease-back agreement 

International Release Staff Materials

• Education Department international representatives, by district 
• Checklist for staff
• 2020 Release Staff Contact QuikGuide, with a tools explainer and list of Political & Legislative Affairs staff info 
• District and state political coordinators list
• Here’s a link to the online weekly reporting system. This Google form (here's an explainer for non-Google users to sign on) should be submitted for each local no later Monday at 12 p.m., starting on September 21. It is a comprehensive user-friendly document used to report local union activity and engagement. Here are the questions, so keep these in mind as you plan your activities. Jammi Ouellette (Jammi_Ouellette@IBEW.org) will be the point of contact for any questions.
• Release staff onboarding sessions are now online:
  • Session 1 – Thursday, Sept. 10 (password: Onboard_Political2020)
  • Session 2 – Friday, Sept. 11 (password: Political_Onboard2020)  

Grassroots team 

• International Representative Grassroots Coordinator
  Rennie Blye at Rennie_Blye@ibew.org; 202-379-6617
• Research Analyst Nina Liu
  Nina_Liu@ibew.org

Political/Legislative Affairs Department 

202-728-6046
political@ibew.org
http://www.ibew.org/political