United Healthcare Workers to Endorse Obama

[kpete]

United Healthcare Workers To Endorse Obama
by Todd Beeton, Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 07:28:41 PM EST

This is big. You'll recall that they'd previously endorsed John Edwards and now that he's out, looks like they're shifting their support to Obama. From The AP, via e-mail:

The head of the United Healthcare Workers is urging the union's umbrella group, the SEIU state council, to support Barack Obama now that John Edwards has dropped out of the presidential race.

"We feel Obama is the best candidate for working families, and we will urge the Service Employees International Union's state council to officially endorse him at their meeting on Friday," United Healthcare Workers President Sal Rosselli said Thursday in a statement.

He said his union, which has 140,000 members in Southern and Northern California, "has a huge capacity to make a real difference in the California primary, given our extensive and experienced field operation, ability to phone bank, precinct walk and reach union members throughout the state."

Update <2008-1-31 19:40:22 by Jonathan Singer>: The transport workers are moving to Obama from Edwards, too.

http://mydd.com/story/2008/1/31/192841/709

[sunonmars]

1. so they havent yet, so your headline is misleading