The Service Employees International Union in New York is going to do this:
“As part of the anti-Bush campaign, union President Dennis Rivera has recruited 1,000 rank-and-file members and staff to fan out across the country beginning next month to get an early start organizing get-out-the-vote operations in more than a dozen “battleground” states.
Those states, including Florida, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Ohio, are considered key for Democrats to regain the White House.
Each of Rivera’s 1,000 volunteers will take a one-year leave of absence from his or her regular job – something permitted by many 1199 labor contracts – with the union paying regular salary and travel costs.”
And they are supporting Dean.