i'd rather have bernie but i'd rather keep the w.h. that being said the election is a ways away

What took 'em so long?


All that supposed 'free pass', from the MSM, when he has virtually been ignored. No network has been promoting his message. He's called a Socialist, like its a bad thing, so much of his press has been derogatory. Or absent.

Seriously glad the two have finally found one another.

I'm a retired union guy (NALC) and pretty much every activist I know with a union background is all in for Bernie. Unions can endorse a candidate, but the monetary support of the unions is chump change in post-Citizens United America.

Participation of activists, however, is still important, but that participation is a choice made by individuals and the unions can't deliver that by fiat. Hillary probably knows that and devalues union endorsements accordingly. So here's the deal: I will work for, donate to, and vote for Bernie if he is the nominee. I will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.

Other labor leaders will be impressed by this stand, and if they needed more cover, they now might have enough. The HRC campaign doesn't want to have to reach out to traditional primary voters while lacking the majority of the union vote.

Imagine if, one by one, unions began to coalesce around Sanders. Gaining collective identity as a force with the populist movement that Bernie represents...it could be a powerful political moment for labor.