Bernie Sanders Announces New York TWU Endorsement, Press Conference 4/13/2016 [FULL SPEECH]

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Streamed live less than 1 hour ago
BREAKING: NY Transport Workers Union endorses Bernie Sanders! Bernie Sanders hosts a press conference in Brooklyn, New York to announce a new endorsement in his campaign for president. The Transport Workers Union represents more than 150,000 workers from some of the more notable industries in the United States, including railroad, gaming, airlines, transit and utility and university services. Today, the founding NYC-based New York TWU announced their endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President. The Democratic presidential candidate will also discuss his efforts to reach voters in New York and provide an update on his campaign ahead of the primary election on Tuesday. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a news conference to announce a new campaign endorsement.

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1. K&R. Terrific News, thanks for posting the event. CNN showed some, not MSNBC who implied-

~ GO NY Transit Workers, NEW YORK and BERNIE 2016! ~

*GET OUT THE VOTE!* 7 Days Until the New York Election!

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2. After this, Bernie went to the Verizon workers picket line. nt

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3. Yay!! That's a lotta New Yawk!

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4. Sanders Wins New York Transit Union Endorsement

Published on Apr 13, 2016
The endorsement of a major transportation workers union in New York City on Wednesday went to Bernie Sanders.
The Democratic candidate said in accepting the endorsement Transport Workers Union Local 100 in person, “It is no secret to anybody in America, whether you’re in the state of Vermont or whether you’re in New York City, that our infrastructure is crumbling. And that means not just our roads, which are crumbling, not just our bridges. (It also includes) mass transit and our rail system.

The candidate vowed a $1 trillion investment to rebuild the "crumbling infrastructure."
The endorsement from the union representing 42,000 transit workers in the New York region comes on the same day Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley became the first of Sanders' Senate colleagues to back his run.

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5. this would be an awesome time for the AFL-CIO

to come forward with an endorsement as well.

OK, I can dream can't I??

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6. Perfect Timing:

The man to watch is strategist and former labor union insider Larry Cohen. He was for many years the president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) that has endorsed Sanders. He’s going all over the country helping the Sanders campaign, urging major labor unions, still undecided, like the Steel, Auto, Firefighters and Electrical Workers (IBEW) to come out for Bernie.

But Mr. Cohen is looking beyond the elections to take the energy from the Sanders campaign and politically mobilize tens of millions of non-unionized workers behind a new Congress furthering a new economy as if workers mattered.

Time is of the essence. When will workers again have such a scandal-free, consistent labor champion as Bernie Sanders seriously going for the Presidency inside the Democratic Party? Had Sanders had two more months without this big union opposition, his current momentum could have allowed him to overtake Clinton by now.

Facing a possible four or eight years of the corporatist and militarist Clinton, coupled with U.S. multinational corporations exporting whole industries, not to mention accelerating labor-replacing automation, the hurdles for Americans believing in democracy, justice and peace becomes far, far greater."

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/08/big-union-leaders-betray-sanders-and-workers

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7. +10 eom