AFSCME to endorse Clinton
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- October
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The 1.4 million member American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, one of the nation’s largest labor unions, is expected to endorse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president today at a 1:30 p.m. press conference at a downtown Washington hotel.
ASFCME is the largest union to make a national endorsement during the current presidential election cycle. With 28,000 members in Iowa, it could play a critical role helping Clinton in what polls show is a tight race among Democrats vying to win the Jan. 3 caucuses.
Clinton recently received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers. But the larger National Education Association will not make a decision until December, NEA President Reg Weaver told Gannett News Service in a recent interview. With 3.2 million members, the NEA is the nation’s largest union.
Another large union, the Service Employees International Union has decided to skip an early national endorsement and allow state level councils decide. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is being endorsed today by the New Hampshire SEIU after earlier receiving endorsements from SEIU councils in Iowa and California.
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee appeared with Clinton at a press conference two weeks ago to jointly endorse a plan to set aside $200 million in annual child care grants for training for child care workers, boost their wages and provide them with benefits such as paid sick days.
AFSCME and SEIU have been actively organizing home-based daycare workers around the country and their new members would benefit from the legislation sponsored by Clinton.
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1.4 million votes! Wonder how much the taxpayer, through Hillary, will pay for this. Guess: Plenty.