Politico: Sanders snags another union endorsement

[LiberalElite]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/sanders-snags-another-union-endorsement-222357

Bernie Sanders on Sunday announced that he had earned the backing of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, in the Democratic candidate's latest endorsement from a major national labor union as he looks to gain momentum ahead of Tuesday's five primaries.

Peter Knowlton, the union's national president, called the Vermont senator in a statement released through his campaign "the most pro-worker pro-union presidential candidate I have seen in my lifetime," adding that Sanders' candidacy “is a unique opportunity that workers and unions must not pass up."

Rank-and-file local delegates from the 35,000-member organization unanimously approved the endorsement of Sanders in the last six weeks, while Knowlton said in the statement that there has already been a "groundswell of support for Bernie with members volunteering for the campaign."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/sanders-snags-another-union-endorsement-222357#ixzz46lAOchI5

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[appalachiablue]

1. Excellent, thank you United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America!!

[Jubilant18]

2. Thank you my Union sisters and brothers!

When union members get to vote, they choose Bernie. When the union officers only vote, they choose Hillary.

The two national teachers' unions did not ask their members and did not choose Bernie. I am a teacher who supports Bernie completely.

Btw the members of the national teachers' unions do not get to elect their presidents. They are chosen by delegates to their conventions. There is a big disconnect between what the union leaders want and what actual teachers want.

Please keep that in mind when the presidents of the nea and aft are brought on TV to support bad ideas for public education, like competency based learning, aka plunking students in front of a computer all day and calling that education.

[Babel_17]

3. They see who's got their back (nt)

[nc4bo]

4. Rank AND File!! nt

[Kittycat]

5. Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.