Posted on 11/17/2015 5:01:47 PM PST by markomalley
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the powerful 1.9 million-member group that helped fast-food workers protest for a $15 minimum wage, endorsed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Tuesday.
“Hillary Clinton has proven she will fight, deliver, and win for working families,” said SEIU president Mary Kay Henry in a press release. “SEIU members and working families across America are part of a growing movement to build a better future for their families, and Hillary Clinton will support and stand with them.” A Clinton campaign press release responded that she was “deeply honored” to earn the union’s support.
It’s a crushing blow for Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who’s run an insurgent campaign against the Democratic front-runner but has sagged in the polls the last few weeks, even relinquishing the slim lead he’d held for months in New Hampshire.
It’s also an ironic blow. In concert with several other unions, the SEIU has campaigned for months to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 for fast-food workers and other service-industry employees. Sanders supports that push, and attended a rally in Washington, D.C. last week to demand the $15 minimum wage for U.S. Capitol workers. Clinton opposes it, in favor of a more modest increase to $12 nationwide.
Clinton has racked up union endorsements in the recent months, earning the support of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Only one large union, National Nurses United, is supporting Sanders.
A short statement “on the support Sanders has received from rank-and-file SEIU members” was sent to reporters by the Sanders campaign soon after the news broke of the SEIU’s endorsement. “We are gratified that hundreds of thousands of workers are part of the growing grassroots movement supporting Bernie’s campaign to help working families by raising the minimum wage, providing health care for all, and making college affordable,” wrote Sanders’s communications director Michael Briggs.
Commies always support other commies. Sanders is only a Socialist. The greedy piggies down at that sewer calling itself the SEIU are going for the hardcore stuff.
Old Bernie aint got the correct genitalia. Lieberal dreck women will vote for the Hellary-— their heroine.
The fat-cat SEIU leadership wants Hillary. But the SEIU rank-and-file wants Sanders. As is true in most unions, what the rank-and-file want doesn't count. All that counts is what the suits at the union HQ want.
So the SEIU endorses Hillary. But they won't get many of the rank-and-file out there working for her. Those folks will stay home and watch TV instead.
She can win, he can’t. They aren’t stupid.
actually I thought the commie style SEIU bosses would go all out for Bernie
I guess they just figure Hillary is a lost cause
(so do I)
Criminals and other socially repugnant miscreants support other socially repugnant criminals!!!!
HAHAHA! Sellouts. Whatever you think of the two of them, if the unions were the slightest bit honest they’d support their socialist comrade over the corporatist grifter.
He imploded his campaign the second he caimed to be tired of hearing about damn emails
Years of alcohol abuse, strokes, age and poor health have taken its toll.
C’mon Bernie. Show ‘em who’s boss. 3rd Party!
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