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Community/Political Action Organizing in our workplaces must also lead to increased organizing in our communities. Our fundamental goals -- job security, an improving standard of living for our families, and real protection for the right to organize -- require increased political power as well as more workplace organizing. Improving our chances of electing candidates who share our vision means that we must align ourselves with family members, members of other unions, and unorganized workers who support our goals. We also increase our political power by building coalitions for better legislation with other labor organization and also with community-based groups who share a similar outlook. For example, without political power, healthcare for our families will never be a right guaranteed to all. Instead we will continually struggle to protect our right to healthcare with every contract we bargain, often sacrificing other bargaining goals when healthcare costs rise. Multinational corporations will continue to erode our job security under the guise of deregulation and competition unless we have the political power to restore our rights as workers. Click on the links on the left for more information.