| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 8, 2000 |
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Cashier Moms Ring Up Votes for Gore in Battleground States Cashier moms swing for Al Gore in swing states, according to a poll by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) which represents more than a million grocery store workers across the nation. Polling results of UFCW members in battleground states show that the union's women members are going for Gore by a three to one margin. Cashier moms say they swung for Gore because his proposals on Social Security, Education, and Health Care make more sense for working mothers. A pre-Labor Day poll showed 40% of UFCW members strongly for Gore, 45% undecided, and 15% leaning to Bush. More than 90% of the undecided cashier moms swung to Gore based on three key issues: Social Security, 78%; Education, 62.5%; and Health Care, 55.3%. The Bush proposal to privatize Social Security fell flat for the women surveyed who don't want to jeopardize their family protection benefits. Because cashier moms' kids go to public, not private, schools, they don't want to see Bush's voucher system drain money from their children's schools. On health care, George Bush had no standing with the cashier moms because so many eligible Texas children go without health coverage due to Bush's failure to enroll them in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Approximately 1,000 UFCW members living in the battleground states of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, West Virginia, New Mexico, Florida, Iowa, Tennessee, Nevada, Ohio, and Michigan were surveyed. The UFCW is the largest organization of supermarket and food processing workers in North America, representing 1.4 million members. Workers at retail food industry leaders such as Kroger and Safeway are members of the UFCW. |
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