I also manage to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire without running for president, and this is The Trailer.As Joe Biden inches ever closer to a presidential bid, one of the loudest voices in his corner belongs to Harold Schaitberger.
The IAFF's enthusiastic support for Biden stands out for a simple reason: No other labor union sounds so ready to wade into the presidential race. Four years ago, Hillary Clintonof the country's biggest unions earlier than any non-incumbent candidate in Democratic Party history. This year, most labor leaders are telling candidates to expect a drawn-out process, with no coronations and plenty of demands.
Even after Thursday's news that Sen. Sherrod Brown won't run for president, labor organizers say that the number of credible Democratic candidates will make it hard for most unions to coalesce early. In 2015, Clinton locked up major unions such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees months before the Iowa caucuses; leaders of the federation's unions say, politely, that no candidate could pull that off now.
“This is a time to urge union members to be active in the campaign of their choosing,” said Larry Cohen, a past president of CWA who supports Sanders for president. “Collectively, they can press the Democratic Party to make a priority out of collective bargaining and organizing. They can make this about whether governance in this country has anything to do with working people.”
Other Democratic candidates seem ready to do the same thing. One labor organizer pointed out that at least five Democrats, including Sen. Kamala Harris , lent their support to a series of successful teachers' strikes in California this year. At several stops in Iowa this year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was thanked by members of the Teamsters union who had a very specific reason to support her — she'd taken their meetings and endorsed a plan to fund truckers' pensions.
Two years later, across those three states, voters from union households backed Democratic candidates for governor by 16 points. Even in states where Democrats lost, such as Missouri, labor celebrated big wins for its members, like a ballot measure that overturned “right to work” legislation.
daveweigel Is that the only channel Kentucky gets, Fox?
daveweigel Watch out, ' AMERICANS'...
daveweigel 'gets redder'? Really? Try, becomes more red. Did WaPo fire their editors.
daveweigel Wow
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daveweigel I really hope they can turn it around.
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