Bernie Sanders picks up his biggest union endorsement yet: U.S. postal workers

Calling Sanders “a fierce advocate of postal reform”, Dimondstein hailed the Vermont senator as an authentic champion for the concerns and rights of American employees.

Postal worker union officials said Sanders showed a deep understanding of their issues and said they were particularly swayed by his address to 2,000 activists in Las Vegas in October. “It’s time for a political revolution”, said postal union President Mark Dimondstein in a statement.

The Washington Post recently reported on Sanders’ ongoing “crusade to save the struggling U.S. Postal Service from existence”.

Dimondstein pointed to Sanders’ efforts to keep open post offices and mail-sorting plants in rural communities, fight against postal privatization and oppose slower delivery standards, according to AP. “And, no other candidate has his record of fighting to defend and expand Social Security, promoting “Medicare for all, ‘ and opposing “fast track trade authority” and rotten trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)”.

The National Nurses Union, another AFL-CIO member union, also endorsed Sanders back in August.

Today, when election endorsements by labor unions are often portrayed as little more than component parts of the broader bureaucracy of contemporary politics, the Gompers premise might sound old-fashioned. And Clinton’s labor endorsements, valued for the financial and organizational heft they deliver, continue to stack up, despite the ties Sanders has forged among many rank-and-file union members and their families.

“What you are doing and workers all over the United States are doing, you are having a profound impact”, Sanders said.

Joyal added that union brass might be tempted to swing their votes toward Clinton, but that dues-paying members in the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire will not necessarily follow. She has also picked up endorsements from a number of major unions, including the National Education Association.

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