AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is planning an intense campaign to dissuade frustrated union workers from voting for Donald Trump because "if left unattended, the anger and the frustration [Trump has] tapped into will carry the day.
"But when you give working-class people the facts, I think he falls apart," Trumka told
The Washington Post. "He's a house of cards."
The effort would target as many as seven states — Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, among them — and educating voters about what he described as Trump's history of policies against unions and workers.
"I would not try to dissuade a voter from thinking big or thinking what the country can be," Trumka told the Post. "That's been done too much.
"We need to give [voters] alternatives point for point — wages, taxes, making the rich pay," he said.
The AFL-CIO plans will reach out to rank-and-file union members and potential Democrats, arguing that Trump would cut wages and that his plans for illegal immigration and unionization would leave them worse off than they are now.
The union plans to work directly with a variety of groups, including those pushing for a $15 minimum wage, the Post reports.
"We'll have literally millions of phone calls, leaflets, door-knocks, rallies and seminars," Trumka said.
The union chief did not put a figure on the anti-Trump campaign, but the AFL-CIO spent more than $9.3 million on the 2012 presidential race, according to the Post.