Postal workers’ union endorses Bernie Sanders for president

“He’s a real person as opposed to the rich people who are usually politicians, he’s our kind of people, and I think he will be our kind of president”, Brooks said.

“It’s time for a political revolution”, the president of the American Postal Workers’ Union declared when he announced the 200,000-member strong organization’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders.

Clinton, who has a wide lead over Sanders in national polls, also remains ahead in the labor fight with endorsements from large unions such as AFSCME, the public employees union, the American Federation of Teachers and others.

The postal workers’ union said Sanders has a long history of supporting its workers and pointed to his efforts to keep open post offices and mail-sorting plants in rural communities, oppose slower delivery standards and fight attempts to privatize the mail service. Applying that criterion, Sen. The same was true for the National Nurses United, Sanders’ first national union endorsement. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is rallying for an increase in pay for low-wage workers at his day-job workplace – the Senate. APWU views itself as fighting a battle against postal service privatization, and it counts the Vermont senator as perhaps its leading defender.

Sen. Sanders has spent his career standing with workers, now workers are standing with him in his bid for the White House.

“For our part, we’re going continue focusing less on arbitrary challenges that undermine the gravity of the New Hampshire primary, and more on the issues that affect everyday Americans: from income inequality to the appalling influence of corporations on our political process”, Ganapathy said.

Sanders has also picked up the endorsement of mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey. The labour union said that its National Executive Board voted on 5 November to endorse the Vermont senator for president, after he addressed 2,000 activists at the union’s All-Craft Conference on 14 October. But so far, unions have seemed skittish about turning their backs on a dominant front-runner like Clinton.

While Sanders has only received endorsements from two sitting members of the U.S. Congress, labor was supposed to be his sweet spot.

“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 deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)”, Dimondstein added. This includes expanding the post office’s role into banking and allowing them to notarize documents, issue licenses, establish Internet cafes and more. “People know that. That word of mouth goes through the union membership”.