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Unite Here Expected to Endorse Obama
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| Last Edited | RP Jan 08, 2008 06:30pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 8, 2008 08:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Unite Here, the union representing more than 450,000 hotel, restaurant, apparel and laundry workers, is likely to announce its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, a top union official said yesterday.
The union’s leaders are to vote in a conference call at 11 p.m. Tuesday night, following the New Hampshire primary, and they are expected to back Mr. Obama unless he stumbles badly in New Hampshire.
“There are three excellent candidates in the race we like them all, said Bruce Raynor, the union’s president. “This is a very hard choice.”
The endorsement would make Unite Here the first national union to back Mr. Obama, and it would give him a big leg up in Nevada, where the union’s Las Vegas local, Culinary Local 226, with more than 60,000 members, is by far the largest and strongest union in the state.
Many of Unite Here’s leaders had originally favored Senator John Edwards, but, to Mr. Edwards’s dismay, they were unable to persuade a majority of the union’s board to support him. |
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