Edwards Winning Over Unions: Steelworkers and Mineworkers Endorse
Posted by pointblankpolitics on September 3, 2007
Two more union endorsements were made today. John Edwards won them both. Check out the local Pittsburgh coverage here, with video.
From CNN:
The United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America announced their support of Edwards at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh this Labor Day. In a statement, Steelworkers president Leo Gerard said, “All of the Democratic candidates in the field share our values, and any one of them would be a major improvement over the current administration. But none of them is a more forceful advocate for those values than John Edwards. Senator Edwards is committed, as he has been throughout his life, to going to bat for everyday Americans and to changing a broken political system that leaves millions of Americans without a voice in their government.”
Edwards told the boisterous rally, “America was not built on Wall Street. America was built by steelworkers and mine workers.”
The United Steelworkers and the Mineworkers Unions today joined the Carpenters in the list of Edward’s Union Endorsements. His total union supporters is now up to 2 million, the most of any candidate with many more endorsements expected to be on the way.
