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May 21, 2008
United Mine Workers Endorse Obama
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United Mine Workers Endorse Obama
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Obama won today the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America. According to a press release, the union represents "105,000 active and retired coal miners, mine construction workers, public service employees, health care workers and manufacturing workers in the United States and Canada."
UMWA International president Cecil E. Roberts, as quoted in the release:
"It doesn't matter whether it's our members' jobs, their safety, their health care, their pensions, their children's education, their union, their standard of living, or their very rights as American citizens--John McCain will do harm to all of them by continuing the failed Bush administration policies."
This is the second major union endorsement for Obama in the past week. Last Thursday, the United Steelworkers announced their support for Obama.