Clinton tried twisting labor arms on Labor Day

[Omaha Steve]

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/clinton_tried_twisting_labor_a.html

Clinton tried twisting labor arms on Labor Day

by Glenn Thrush

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent the public part of her Labor Day weekend exhorting crowds in New Hampshire and Iowa with her husband Bill, but privately she was doing a little arm-twisting on a major union leader who was about to endorse John Edwards.

Clinton phoned United Steelworkers of America boss Leo Gerard "repeatedly" over the weekend -- three or four times, trying to convince him to back her instead of the labor-friendly former North Carolina senator, according to sources familiar with the situation

The union, which represents 1.2 million workers and retirees, endorsed Edwards on Labor Day.

The union brings thousands of rank-and-file types to the Edwards cause in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.


Glenn Thrush reports for Newsday, a Tribune Co. newspaper.

[saracat]

1. I gess some see through the spin Good for the Steelworkers! And! the Carpenters and the Mineworkers

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. She's not for labor except inasmuch as they can give her support and votes. nt

[Upfront]

3. Leo Gerard gets it.

The Steelworkers are a great Union. They work hard to do as they say. Edwards gets my vote based on this endorsement.