“You’ll see a lot of us [workers] in the streets if a Republican wins again,” she says. “We have to get a Democrat in the Casa Blanca.”

President Bush’s outreach to Hispanic voters doesn’t convince Iscayau of his commitment to jobs.

“Bush says he stands with Hispanics because he threw a Cinco de Mayo party at the White House,” she said. “But he invited only very rich Hispanics. He doesn’t care about the poor workers.”

Iscayau also thinks that Bush’s temporary amnesty proposal for illegal aliens, announced in January by the White House and immediately denounced by critics as an election year ploy to woo Hispanic voters, is a “bad plan.”

“It gives [illegal workers] amnesty for just two years and they’re under the power of their boss. They can get kicked out after two years.”

Iscayau credits Kerry with attempting to out forth an alternate amnesty

proposal that does not restrict the period of legalization.

Kerry’s campaign website says that the senator supports an “earned legalization” proposal that will allow undocumented workers to legalize their status if they have been in the United States for a certain amount of time, have been working, and can pass a background check.

“He’s right now working on getting amnesty for people who don’t have documents,” she said.

Iscayau hopes to volunteer with the Kerry campaign soon.

She also has her fingers crossed for the SEIU’s “2,004 in 2004” program, which will sponsor 2,004 union members to take a few months off and volunteer with the presidential campaign of their choice.

Iscayau, who records her time commitments in a pocketbook decorated with an American flag and the words, “God Bless America,” has no intention of letting up her hectic schedule.

—Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu.