Postal Workers Union Endorses Bernie Sanders/HuffPost
Yay. I was a steward in the APWU and a retired Postal Worker.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-postal-workers-union-bernie-sanders_564491b6e4b060377347ca9a
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won the endorsement of the American Postal Workers Union on Thursday, giving the self-described democratic socialist a boost as he seeks more support from organized labor in the Democratic primary.
APWU represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees. It's the second major national union and member of the AFL-CIO labor federation to endorse Sanders over rival and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Sanders "stands above all others as a true champion of postal workers and other workers throughout the country," said Mark Dimondstein, the union's president, in a statement. The endorsement came from the union's 13-member executive board.
The other national union to endorse Sanders was National Nurses United. The biggest fish -- the AFL-CIO itself -- is unlikely to endorse while the primary is still being disputed.
Sanders has long been a vocal backer of a robust postal service, particularly during the postal reform debate of recent years. APWU views itself as fighting a battle against postal service privatization, and it counts the Vermont senator as perhaps its leading defender.
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