United Auto Workers Union Endorses Obama For President
Barack Obama is picking up a major labor endorsement. The United Auto Workers international executive board tossed its support to the presumptive Democratic candidate.
Union President Ron Gettelfinger said in a news release that Obama has given the country a positive vision for a better America and concrete plans to achieve it, including a pledge to rebuild the country’s manufacturing base and assist the auto industry.
In part, Gettelfinger praises Obama for understanding “the need to change our trade policies so that U.S. workers and U.S. companies can compete fairly in the global economy.”
The Obama campaign says the endorsement also means that two uncommitted Michigan superdelegates are now Obama superdelegates. Both UAW Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Bunn and retired union Vice President Richard Shoemaker had remained uncommitted until today’s endorsement.
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