What is politics about? 

For UNITE, politics is NOT about picking the candidate who looks best on T.V. It's about fighting for what matters most to us: good jobs, fair wages, decent benefits, good working and living conditions, affordable education for all, the right to form a union in the public, political arena. 

These are the issues that UNITE ALL WORKING PEOPLE. Bread-and-butter economic issues. 

We organize and negotiate to win these rights for ourselves at work. Through political action, we fight to protect the     gains we have won in the workplace, and to extend these rights to ALL workers. 

We know there are also issues used by politicians to DIVIDE workers, and make it easier to pick our pockets at election time.  These issues, like gun rights and abortion rights, are ones where every American has a right to make up his or her own mind, but if you back political candidates based only on these divisive issues, working people will ALL continue to lose on our pocketbook issues. 

      From NEJB Photo Gallery:

New England Joint Board Secretary Evelyn Moniz asks a question of Presidential candidate John Edwards at a December 29 rally for Edwards in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Photo credits: Alex Ramponi
1970 A young U.S. senator, Ted Kennedy, campaigns for re-election at an ILGWU dinner.	From left to right: ILG VP Ed Milano, Kennedy, Western Massachusetts District Council Manger Jack Albano, Southern New England District Council Manager Ralph Roberts and Boston Joint Board Manger Milton Kaplan.