2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMachinists' union endorses Clinton for president in 2016
Hillary Clinton on Friday won the endorsement of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, making it the second national union to give the Democratic front-runner the stamp of approval.
The endorsement could give Clinton a significant boost as she seeks to woo labor, even as her main Democratic rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has eroded her edge in opinion polls and has himself landed the endorsement of National Nurses United, the nation's largest organization of nurses.
The union, based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, represents nearly 600,000 active and retired members, according to its website.
Clinton is trying to win over labor - often a key source of volunteers and funds for Democrats - as part of an effort to build a broad coalition within her party and avoid a potentially damaging, drawn-out primary fight. The winner of the primary contest will face the Republican nominee in the November 2016 election.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/machinists-union-endorses-clinton-for-president-in-2016/ar-BBlKkfG
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Picking Dem
(106 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)Certainly no surprise. Individuals have their own interests.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)You mean people on the union's facebook page. Which in NO WAY makes them a member (just like a lot of the complainers on the teacher's union page weren't teachers or members of said union).
Cha
(297,935 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)SonderWoman
(1,169 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:11 PM - Edit history (1)
The Union does not speak for me (in regards to this endorsement) or many of my 751 coworkers who will continue to support Bernie.
IAM will need to change their endorsement after the primaries.