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NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 09:50 AM Oct 2015

National Union of Healthcare Workers endorse Bernie

Nearly 200 elected rank-and-file leaders representing 11,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 72% to endorse Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary at the union’s annual Leadership Conference, convened October 10 in Pasadena, Calif.

And this is from a bottom-up vote, not a top-down declaration:

The vote was the culmination of a three-month, bottom-up, democratic process. The union’s Executive Board, consisting of elected rank-and-file members, sent questionnaires to every Republican and Democratic candidate. Union stewards reviewed the questionnaires and discussed the election at monthly steward council meetings at each NUHW-represented hospital, clinic, and nursing home, and discussed the candidates with their constituent members in each facility. And finally, on October 10, leaders from throughout the union gathered in Pasadena to cast their ballots.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/13/1431442/-Natl-Union-of-Healthcare-Workers-endorse-Bernie#
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National Union of Healthcare Workers endorse Bernie (Original Post) NorthCarolina Oct 2015 OP
That's good news for Bernie. MineralMan Oct 2015 #1
Bernie gets the People, Hillary gets the Establishment. That's what this election is about. sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #2
Yep! Thespian2 Oct 2015 #16
Exactly. nm rhett o rick Oct 2015 #28
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #3
When the rank-and-file get a vote, Le Taz Hot Oct 2015 #4
the people didn't get to vote dsc Oct 2015 #6
Leader clearly LISTENED to the membership 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #18
+100000000!!!!!!!! nt Bubzer Oct 2015 #23
+100000000!!!!!!!! nt 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #17
I'm glad it was a bottom-up voting process. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #5
Good for Bernie! in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #7
So fucking sick of top-down decisions PURPOSEFULLY manipulating others to do things stillwaiting Oct 2015 #8
I often wonder why some of the groups supporting her jwirr Oct 2015 #21
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #9
The NUHW or Billionaire Banksters? SoapBox Oct 2015 #12
Your point being? NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #15
Congratulations to the Senator on a great endorsement. hrmjustin Oct 2015 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #25
K & R! SoapBox Oct 2015 #11
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Oct 2015 #13
Great news! eom Duval Oct 2015 #14
I loves me a smart union, that supports a candidate who actually supports workers. nt 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #19
K&R magical thyme Oct 2015 #20
That is amazing! Good to hear! Bubzer Oct 2015 #22
Excellent pick up for Sanders. NCTraveler Oct 2015 #24
Good endorsement WI_DEM Oct 2015 #26
Hell yes! kenfrequed Oct 2015 #27
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
18. Leader clearly LISTENED to the membership
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:42 AM
Oct 2015

I think that is the point, unlike in another recent case,
for another union and candidate who shall not be named.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
7. Good for Bernie!
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:18 AM
Oct 2015

IMCPO, EVERY union in this country should be endorsing him - the only candidate who has ALWAYS supported them.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
8. So fucking sick of top-down decisions PURPOSEFULLY manipulating others to do things
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:19 AM
Oct 2015

against their best interests.

If other "endorsements" were handled this way, I believe the results would probably be the same.

Our current leader for the Democratic nomination has been quite bad for unions and workers throughout her career. It makes zero sense for unions to support her with an endorsement.



jwirr

(39,215 posts)
21. I often wonder why some of the groups supporting her
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 12:39 PM
Oct 2015

do so. When you bother to look at the record - what exactly has she done for any of them? I mean really done for them that had any lasting good effects?

My first vote was for JFK and I don't remember much of anything that she lead to fight in.

Also her husband led the country in its last years of economic well being and helped enact laws that contributed to the downfall of many people in the middle class. Yes the congress passed the repeal of Glass-Steagall with a veto proof margin but the Clinton team let it become law without even a whimper.

Had he vetoed the damned bill and forced them to override it the Rs would not have been able to blame it on him and make it a Democrat bill. They would have had to take the blame.


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NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
24. Excellent pick up for Sanders.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 12:49 PM
Oct 2015

I love how we know they are going to choose between a couple of democrats. The party of the people. The distinction is this cycle is awesome.

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