Will Dean be getting the Communication Workers and Teachers Union nods?

[CMT]

This is from an article I stumbled over in Newsweek tonight by Jonathan Alter titled, "Is Labor Dying, or Being Born?"

"With only 8.2% of the private-sector work force still enrolled in unions, why bother to keep track of a bright former social worker like Andy Stern? Two reasons. First, his union, the 1.6 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), jolted the political world last week by joining with the biggest union of government workers (AFSCME) to endorse Howard Dean. (The Communication Workers' and teachers' union will soon follow)...

Wow, that is quite a prediction for Alter to make--and I generally trust him more than the other chief political reporter for Newsweek, Howard Fineman.

Has anyone heard anything about the possibility of the Communication Workers and Teachers Union also gearing up to endorse Dean?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/994165.asp

[mandyky]

1. We can always hope!

The more feet and roots we raise, the better our chances are..

What I wonder is what if Dean gets the AFL-CIO? That would undercut that other guy, huh?

[unfrigginreal]

2. You know what they say

"The bigger the cult the merrier"

Now, if we could just get some ordinary working joes to support Dean instead of these union types.

[Cha]

3. This is an outstanding article on Dean and

The Unions in "Newsweek"...I made copies at work and passed them out
to interested parties.

Amazing what a journalist can do who has a progressive slant! That is Progress!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. I know the California teachers union endorsed him a while back.

As for the other states...:shrug:

[elifino]

6. Teacher support

I do not think a lot of teachers in Ga. will support a democrat after Gov. Roy Barnes

[9119495]

5. I don't think the NEA will for a long time

They don't meet as a group until next summer when the nomination will be wrapped up. At that point, they will vigorously endorse ANY Dem do to the horror of "No Child Left Behind."

My local NEA chapter loves Dean because rather than fully fund the pice o' shit legislation, he wants to blow it up and start over. The other guys just want to change it a bit and give it more money.