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AFL-CIO to Offer Internet Access to Members
The
AFL-CIO now offers low-cost Internet service and discounted American-made
computers for union families. Members of unions participating in workingfamilies.com,
the labor federation's new Internet community, are being offered Internet
service at $14.95 per month, and computer packages with full financing
are being negotiated for as low as $750, meaning members can come online
for as little as $7.99 per week. Members already online can switch to
the new AFL-CIO service, or simply access workingfamilies.com at no charge
through their current Internet Service Provider (ISP). Workingfamilies.com
offers all the resources of other state-of-the-art online services, including
e-mail, e-commerce, news, weather, sports and stock quotations. In addition,
the AFL-CIO is creating a shopping center on the website where shoppers
can buy union-made and American-made products and avoid anti-union companies
as well as sweatshop abusers.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called workingfamilies.com "the working
person's AOL." Unions signing up for workingfamilies.com can have
their portal pages custom designed at no charge by ibelong.inc. LaserLink.net,
the industry leader in the rapidly growing market of Internet service
providers, supplies ISP service. Extending computer and Internet access
to more working families will give unions, the AFL-CIO and activist organizations
like CBTU a powerful, direct channel to educate and mobilize members for
political and organizing activities. [For more information, e-mail: Leslie
Tolf at Itolf@aflcio.org]
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