AFL-CIO takes up the DHL attack on McCain

The mailer against McCain: AFL-CIOThe AFL-CIO has joined the Ohio Democratic Party and Barack Obama's presidential campaign in hammering John McCain over the impending job losses in Wilmington from the UPS-DHL merger.

The AFL-CIO is mailing 100,000 "union swing voters" in Ohio a pamplet that attacks McCain for turning his back on workers. McCain is taking heat because his campaign manager, Rick Davis, who worked for the DHL parent company Deutche Poste in 2005.

The federation wants members to call and e-mail McCain's Ohio offices and ask the campaign to fire Davis. 

Interestingly this AFL-CIO mailing is less than half the size of the mailing to "Meet Barack Obama," which the union made in Ohio last month to 250,000 members. 

ALSO on PolitickerOH.com:

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• AFL-CIO reaches out to non-union members for Ohio election effort