-Hundreds of SEIU Members from Los Angeles and Bay Area to Spend This Weekend Talking to Reno and Las Vegas Voters-

LAS VEGAS, NV--This weekend, with only 11 days remaining before voters head to the polls, hundreds of SEIU members from across California will put down their brooms, badges, briefcases, and blood pressure cuffs and pick up clipboards and walk lists as they head to Nevada to mobilize voters for Barack Obama.

Four busloads of SEIU members will head from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and from San Francisco to Reno, where they will talk to voters about healthcare, the economy, retirement security, and other issues of top concern to America's working families..

The 400 California-based SEIU members traveling to Nevada this weekend work in a wide range of professions, and hail from SEIU Locals 1000, 1021, 521, 1877, 721, 99, 221, 121RN, United Healthcare Workers-West, and 6434, United Long-Term Care Workers.

Every day I work with families that are suffering from the failed policies of the Bush administration. And while I can't give a new house to help a family that has foreclosed on theirs, and I can't make the insurance companies cover a sick child, I can do my part to make sure that come January, the White House and Congress are being run by people who understand and care about the needs of working families," said Traecy Jackson, a social worker with SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles. "This election is just too important to sit it out, or assume that somebody else will do it."

Traecy is just one of 100,000 nurses, janitors, child care providers, and other members from SEIU across the nation volunteering after work and on weekends to elect Barack Obama and a pro-working family Congress on November 4th. In addition to the volunteers, more than 3,000 SEIU members, leaders, and staff are taking time away from their jobs to work full-time on the election. SEIU members have committed more than $85 million to election efforts around the country.

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