That money, to be used to pay hundreds of full-time organizers and educate voters on issues, is a new resource to pour into the campaign.
The service employees' union, which has more than 400 full-time organizers, expects to add almost 200,000 members this year, to 1.3 million.
He has hired 700 full-time organizers, he said, to make the union grow after years of decline.
The hotel local has 21 full-time organizers, while most union locals have none.
We've got five hundred full-time organizers, and by next Friday we expect to have close to two thousand.
In 1947 he owned his own shop, he went on to become a steward, and then a full-time organizer for the union.
Four years later, that union hired him as a full-time organizer in Wisconsin.
It allowed him to build a staff that included a full-time organizer in Iowa.
Her union experience began right after college, when she was a full-time organizer for apple pickers and tobacco growers in western Massachusetts.
She became a board member in 1916 and in 1917 became its first full-time female organizer.