Nevada Building Trades Increase Voter Registration, Push Kerry
"We have registered about 500 union members to vote within the last three months," says Tommy White, secretary-treasurer of laborers union Local 872, which represents about 3,500 members in southern Nevada. "Were supporting John Kerry because President Bush squashed project labor agreements. He also wants to cut overtime and outsource jobs."
Felicia Meshelle, an eight-year member of the Southwest Council of Regional Carpenters, says health care and insurance are two big issues and she supports a change in the White House. "I say the next four years would be better with someone else, someone more in tune with our nation. I have three kids that I have to feed. I wouldnt be able to make as much on a nonunion job."