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Organized Labor Plans Huge Offensive against Bush Re-Election.

By T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 5--Saying working families can't afford four more years of George W. Bush, organized labor is mapping out what it says will be the largest voter drive in its history to defeat the president in the 2004 election.

The campaign will roll out this week with television ads in Iowa and New Hampshire--key primary states--and an announcement of a new coalition of labor and constituency groups that will coordinate voter-education efforts.

And on Tuesday night, the executive c

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