Federal Employees' Union Endorses Kerry

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The largest federal employee union will work to defeat President Bush in November after endorsing presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry last week.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which has 210,000 dues-paying members, said the Massachusetts senator would help turn back the Republican's efforts to revamp federal pay and personnel systems and open up more federal work to private contractors. Kerry, who has voted with the AFGE 88 percent of the time during his Senate career, also opposes private accounts in Social Security, favors spending more on veterans' health care and would strengthen Medicare and collective bargaining rights, said John Gage, the AFGE president.

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The AFGE and NTEU endorsed Democrat Al Gore over Bush in the 2000 election. The IFPTE, with 40,000 members in the Defense Department and NASA, typically makes no endorsement, but it broke with that tradition because "this administration has been so anti-labor, particularly when it comes to federal employees," said Matthew S. Biggs, an IFPTE spokesman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10363-2004Jun27.html

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1. Yay! Excellent news. The coffin is closing

I'm really hoping this bad dream is almost over.