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Service Employees International Union members in 2018
UNITED STATES trade unionists have launched a $150 million (£117m) drive to register and organise hundreds of thousands of new voters in a bid to defeat anti-worker US President Donald Trump.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which has almost two million members working in healthcare, the public sector and the property sector, said the campaign aimed to “turn the country round in 2020.”
The drive, lasting until November, when the presidential election takes place, is intended “to ensure we elect a president who will be a champion for working people,” political director Maria Peralta said.
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