Large Union Backs Obama; Another Is Likely to Do Same
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The United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Thursday, while members of another giant, the Service Employees International Union, were casting votes Thursday night.
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The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers endorsed Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton for president Monday, saying she had the best chance to win.
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The head of the United Auto Workers said Sunday his union will aggressively work to elect either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama to the White House, but reiterated that it will not endorse either one for the Democratic nomination.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers on Thursday endorsed Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee in the presidential primaries.
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Despite racking up almost all of the endorsements from organized labor, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards came in behind Barack Obama Â the only Democratic front-runner with no national union support Â in the Iowa caucuses. That left at least one union looking for a new candidate Friday.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton picked up the first national labor endorsement of the 2008 White House race on Tuesday, winning the support of the 125,000-member United Transportation Union.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama picked up a major endorsement on Thursday with the party's 2004 nominee John Kerry announcing he would back his presidential bid.
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Workers in the public and private sectors voted Thursday to back the creation of the nation's biggest single trade union, which will end up representing about two million employees.
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Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards won trade union backing on Monday from steelworkers and mineworkers, putting him ahead of rivals in declared union support, his campaign said.
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Sen. Barack Obama is slated to pick up the endorsement of the powerful Teamsters, the second major union endorsement for the Democratic front-runner in a week, union officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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The powerful leftist Internet-based group MoveOn.org, which counts some 3.2 million members, on Friday endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Sen. Barack Obama was drawing strong support across race and gender lines Tuesday in Virginia that showed signs he was eating into the core voters of his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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The board of the union, representing employees at the Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones properties, is scheduled to meet on Friday to endorse the deal and set a date for a vote by the membership.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls on Monday brandished their labor credentials before two of the nation's more powerful unions in a hunt for endorsements.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John  Edwards won trade union backing on Monday from steelworkers and  mineworkers, putting him ahead of rivals in declared union  support, his campaign said.
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday endorsed Barack Obama for president, a Super Tuesday boost in a GOP-leaning state where Democrats hope to reclaim in the White House campaign.