Obama endorsed by National Labor Union, United Assocation of Plumbers and Pipefitters

[MadBadger]

ST. PAUL – The Minnesota for Obama Campaign on Wednesday announced the endorsement of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA), a national labor union with 340,000 members nationwide and 9,000 in Minnesota.

The campaign also announced it will open two new offices in the state as Sen. Obama’s grassroots organization gains momentum in Minnesota heading into the Feb. 5th primary.

“Barack Obama is the UA’s choice because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly-needed change to Washington,” said UA International President William P. Hite. “Senator Obama will help us keep existing jobs and work to develop new higher-paying jobs here in America, reform our health care system, fix our ailing schools and make sure that the pensions of our retirees are safe.” The UA is the first national union to endorse the Obama campaign.

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1. This just in also; the Cullinary union workers in Nevada today announced the endorsement of Obama...

[MadBadger]

2. Saw that, plus the national organization Unite Here

[Adelante]

3. He's raking them in

:)

[Omaha Steve]

4. K&R

Good for Senator Obama.

[Colobo]

5. Hillary is in for a real fight!

[Tess99]

6. Even after a loss, they're standing by him! Amazing.

The know Obama has their backs.

[karynnj]

7. In their announcement they referred to Penn's labor busting connections

Sweet - there should be consequences for hiring people like that.

[AtomicKitten]

8. Let's see: He got the same delegates as 1st place PLUS two monster endorsements.

This all has went down quite nicely after all.

K&R