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...card will be seen as a test run for a national ID card, a controversial idea. Workers are concerned that background checks be fair and appealable. "We want to be sure there's due process," says Ed Wytkind, executive director of the transportation trades department of the AFL-CIO. "And that they single out not the person who committed a crime 20 years ago but the person who is a security threat today." Yet even those who are wary appear resigned. "We're not 100% behind it," says Mike Russell of the American Trucking Association. "But we realize...
...AFL-CIO does not yet favor a specific presidential candidate in the 2004 presidential election, he said...
...preparation for the next election, the AFL-CIO is about to launch a new program to mobilize black, Latino and women voters, who have been vastly underrepresented at the polls in past years...
...million program, scheduled to be operational in selected states by the end of February, will identify issues important to these voters to help the AFL-CIO find candidates representing their interests...
...Rosenthal emphasized that the AFL-CIO is not only concerned with gaining political power...