It’s where the entire labor movement should be:
Bernie Sanders has landed his biggest labor endorsement to date: the American Postal Workers Union, or APWU.
The group represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees from across all 50 states. The APWU executive board announced its choice early this morning.
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“Politics as usual has not worked. It’s time for a political revolution,” Postal Workers President Mark Dimondstein said in a statement, invoking the battle cry of the Vermont senator. “Bernie Sanders stands above all others as a true champion of postal workers and other workers throughout the country. He doesn’t just talk the talk. He walks the walk.”
Much of the talking revolves around post office closures across the nation, particularly in rural areas, and new ways to raise postal revenue. Dimondstein added that the group had been impressed when Sanders spoke to postal workers in Las Vegas, which was his first stop after October’s debate.
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“Hillary Clinton, I’ve met her,” said John Joyal, a training instructor at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine and one of the steering committee’s 53 members. “I’ve taken pictures with her. But she’s too wishy-washy. Bernie’s got my support, no two ways about it.”
No, John, it’s not that shes wishy-washy. It’s that she won’t tell you the truth...which is probably what you meant when you were thinking say about her sudden, new-found position opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. You, John, understand, that a status quo candidate will embrace Wall Street and basically support the very economic system which has destroyed the middle class.
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