2020 Democrats court organized labor as unions bide their time on endorsements

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At the first official event of his presidential campaign last month at the Local 249's Teamsters banquet union hall in Pittsburgh, former Vice President Joe Biden, long known as "middle-class Joe," made a firm declaration: "I make no apologies. I am a union man. Period."

Before an animated crowd in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at the site of one of the nation’s most famous labor strikes, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made her presidential bid official.

"The story of Lawrence is a story about how real change happens in America," Warren told the crowd on a frigid morning in early February. "It’s a story about power — our power — when we fight together."

And now, roughly four and a half months into the Democratic presidential primary, the campaign staffs of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro have become the first in history to unionize.

These symbolic and tangible nods to working-class America and overtures to the progressive wings of the party are part of a strategy to court the union vote, which will be crucial to clinching the Democratic nomination.

Even with an established name like Biden, who secured the first major labor union endorsement of the 2020 contest from the International Association of Firefighters the morning of his Pittsburgh rally, in the race and Sanders’ emphasis on the plight of America’s middle class, a field of now over 20 candidates ensures that the fight for support from organized labor will be far more competitive this time around.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2020-democrats-court-organized-labor-as-unions-bide-their-time-on-endorsements/ar-AABdz8L?li=BBnbcA1

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1. The Firefighters didn't waste anytime

and didn’t Spanky hate it!