National Association Of Letter Carriers Announce Endorsement Of Hillary Clinton

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NH Labor News

Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), released the following statement regarding the NALC Executive Council’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president of the United States:

Following a tremendously hard-fought primary process, NALC is proud to endorse former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve as the next president of the United States.

Secretary Clinton has a long history of supporting the issues most important to letter carriers—a strong Postal Service, collective-bargaining rights for postal employees and decent pay and benefits for all American workers. She has been a friend of NALC since her first meeting with us in 1994.

Former Sen. Clinton was among the first in the Senate to support legislation to prohibit the contracting out of letter carrier jobs to low-wage private contractors, a bill that helped us stop the practice in 2006. She has defended six-day delivery, supported federal employees and was an original co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act.

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[DemMomma4Sanders]

1. I can't see if a vote was taken or it was an administrative decision.

This year, we had the good fortune of seeing two tremendous champions of letter carriers compete for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. In fact, both have been made honorary members of the NALC by delegates to our national conventions. As I informed our members in March, based on the issue surveys we sent to both parties’ candidates and the polls we conducted among our 280,000 members and activists, both Secretary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders earned our support. Out of respect for both candidates and the passionate supporters each has in our union, we decided not to endorse either until the primary process produced a nominee.That has now happened.


Too bad they didn't endorse prior......

[hay rick]

2. Yes, a vote was taken.

The vote was taken back when there were 5 Democratic candidates. Webb, Chafee, and all of the Republicans declined to fill out the questionnaire, but all were included in the preference ballot which was sent out to all members in the monthly magazine. Clinton had a clear plurality of the votes cast but the leadership decided to endorse BOTH Sanders and Clinton. They are now endorsing Clinton.

[Omaha Steve]

4. They actually endorsed Bernie before the primaries started

Edit: I will look into this over the weekend after reading the above reply.

That was done by polling the membership. I only GUESSING that there was a clause that should Hillary become the presumptive nominee, the executive board could poll the district presidents by phone OR just take action automatically.

We will know more in a day or two. There is a USPS reporter at NH Labor News.

OS

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. K&R nt