The Case Against McCain:

Hammond: ‘Vote McCain and Get the Same’
Three Years After Katrina, New Orleans Leader Recalls Rough
Treatment at Low Moment.

Arizona Leaders on Sen. John McCain
The Journal asked some of the folks who know John McCain the best – the men and women back home in Arizona – to tell us about him and his record.

November is No Time for Myths
President Hill’s editorial from the October 2008 issue of the Electrical Worker

Swiftboat Vet Takes on McCain
After 39 years in the IBEW, three tours of duty in Vietnam and some high-profile political activism during the 2004 presidential election, Jim Wasser, a member of Joliet, Ill., Local 176, has earned the right to begin easing into his November retirement.

The Maverick Myth
...A study of John McCain's record shows that when it comes to issues of concern to working families, he has stood with President
Bush and the congressional GOP all the way.

Video Clips:

  John McCain's Risky Plan for Social Security (Windows Media Player)

Fliers and Presentations: Important information to share with your co-workers and family.

McCain-economy-better-off flyer (pdf)
Are We Better Off? 
Are you better off than you were eight years ago? Sen. John McCain thinks so. Check out what he said about the economy in the latest election
message from the IBEW and share it with your co-workers and family.

Fundamentals (pdf)
Fundamentally Strong?
With Wall Street in melt down mode and record unemployment and home foreclosure levels, who recently said that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong?” Sen. John McCain, that’s who. Check out the latest election message from the IBEW and share it with your co-workers and family.

WhoDoYouTrust (pdf)
Who’s On Your Side?
With the economy collapsing, the unemployment rate rising and retirement security for millions of Americans in jeopardy, which candidate is on the side of working families and rebuilding the middle class? Find out in the latest election message from the IBEW and share it with your co-workers and family.

Why McCain is a disaster for union construction workers (pdf)

McCain's Rail Record (ppt)
McCain’s votes and public statements indicate he opposes unions, collective bargaining, transportation security spending and transportation investment.