Or rather began here, a few weeks back ...
Inside Bernie Sanders' strategy to win over organized labor
by Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker, reuters.com -- Sep 6, 2015
Union activist Cliff Smith once thought of Bernie Sanders as an "obscure" U.S. senator. That changed in August when Smith joined 27,000 people to hear the Democratic White House candidate speak at a Los Angeles sports arena.
"The other candidates -- they talk in these very calculated, milquetoast, vague ways -- they just don’t come across as human," said Smith, the business manager for Local 36, a branch of a roofers’ union. "He just seems like your next-door neighbor."
Sanders' vow to protect American jobs and rein in big corporations has resonated with union workers such as Smith. [...]
Here is some of the local Los Angeles News 'coverage' of that Sanders rally in LA, California, where 27,000 people turned out ... where Union activist Cliff Smith changed his mind.
Here's the Livestream.com coverage of 27,000 VERY enthusiastic supporters in LA.
That extraordinary crowd-panning at the beginning of that clip, should have made National News. Just give it time.
"This political revolution is about -- Transforming the United States of America."
Those Reuters reporters going on to describe that battle for Labor's support this way:
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Meanwhile, Labor for Bernie is urging AFSCME and other national unions to put the brakes on formal endorsements. Petitions are circulating, including one to the Service Employees International Union, which has 2 million members, urging leaders to stay on the sidelines for now.
'TERRAIN HAS CHANGED'
Ed Hunt, an SEIU leader in Salem, Oregon, who supports Sanders, said the strategy may be bearing fruit. Hunt once thought it was inevitable that Clinton would get a formal backing from SEIU, which represents waiters, hotel maids and other service workers. He does not think so anymore.
“I think that the terrain has changed,” Hunt said.
Clinton's cautious stance on a Pacific trade deal that the Obama administration is pursuing has cost her some support from union workers who fear the Trans-Pacific Partnership will destroy U.S. jobs. Dozens of union activists interviewed by Reuters expressed unhappiness with Clinton, who has declined to take a stand until the TPP is finalized. Sanders opposes the deal.
If there's one thing most Americans
have in common --
We are all Laborers.
And as Laborers, We deserve better -- much much better than we get now, from the Status Quo.
PS. If you just listen to that clip, Bernie has a lot to say about fighting for Racial Justice too.
"When people stand together there is nothing we can't accomplish.
(Applause)
What this campaign is about bringing people together -- Black and White, Straight and Gay, Men and Women, Native-born and Immigrant.
When we stand together, when we don't allow our opponents to break us up and divide us
-- When we stand United, we can create a New America."
(Louder Applause)
There is no president. None -- one year after the death of Micheal Brown -- No president who will fight harder to end Institutional Racism, than I will.
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