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Sanders joins CWA,
AFL-CIO retiree group
in endorsing Clinton
Communications Workers of
America (CWA) announced its
endorsement of Hillary Clinton,
the presumptive Democratic
nominee for president. The
union was one of a handful that
originally endorsed Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Dem-
ocratic primary.
At press time, Sanders, too,
officially endorsed Clinton.
“Secretary Clinton has won
the Democratic nominating
process, and I congratulate her
for that,” Sanders said at a July
12 rally in New Hampshire.
“She will be the Democratic
nominee for president, and I in-
tend to do everything I can to
make certain she will be the next
president of the United States.”
Earlier this month, Clinton
also received an endorsement
from the Alliance for Retired
Americans. The Alliance is a
constituency group of the AFL-
CIO, with more than 4.4 million
members.
Robert Roach, Jr., president of
the Alliance, said Clinton —
who earned a lifetime score of
100 percent from the Alliance
for her pro-retiree votes as a U.S.
senator from New York — will
HOW COOL IS THIS?: Juno, the
spacecraft that is now success-
fully orbiting Jupiter 540 million
miles into space, was built and
launched by Machinists Union
members. iAM Aerospace work-
ers local lodge 44 members
who work at lockheed Martin in
Decatur, Alabama, built it. And
iAM local lodge 610 members
at United launch Alliance in
Cape Canaveral, Florida,
launched it. Juno was launched
five years ago, and reached
Jupiter on independence Day.
the spacecraft will soon become
the first to see below Jupiter’s
dense cover of clouds. Juno will
stay in Jupiter’s orbit for the
next 20 months, collecting data
on the gas giant and sending it
back to NAsA to be studied.
work to rein in the uncontrolled
prices of prescription drugs
which are far outpacing the rate
of inflation.
“Hillary Clinton has pledged
to strengthen and expand Social
Security, and she will oppose ef-
forts to cut, privatize or shift
Medicare costs to retirees,”
Roach said.
The Alliance also said Clinton
“will stop the proposed TPP
(Trans-Pacific Partnership) be-
fore it locks in patent protections
and makes it more difficult for
the U.S. government to reduce
prescription costs in public pro-
grams like Medicare.”
“We know that elections are
about choices,” CWA said in a
press release. “The contrast be-
tween Hillary Clinton and Don-
ald Trump, the presumptive Re-
publican nominee, couldn’t be
greater.”
CWA pointed out that Trump
supports “right to work” laws
that weaken workers’ bargaining
rights, and he thinks the mini-
mum wage is too high.
“In a Donald Trump Admin-
istration, we’d be watching our
backs for four years,” CWA said.
PROUD TO BE ENDORSED BY:
Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO
SW Washington Central Labor Council
Washington Education Association
Vancouver Education Association
Evergreen Education Association
Camas Education Association
Vancouver Fire Fighters Local 452
Vancouver Fire Fighters Local 1805
NW Regional Council of Carpenters #146
Painters & Allied Trades District Council 5
Washington Public Employees Association
Plumbers and Pipefitters, UA Local 26
Washington Federation of State Employees
American Federation of Teachers
Retired Public Employees Council
Service Employees International Union 925
Service Employees 1199NW
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