Key Union May Back Obama Run
According to The Wall Street Journal:
In what would represent a major shift in union support, Unite Here, which represents 460,000 hotel and apparel workers, is expected to endorse Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination today, according to people familiar with the union's plans.
The decision would be the first national labor endorsement for Mr. Obama and would give him a leg up in the Jan. 19 caucus in Nevada, where the union's 60,000-member culinary-workers local is by far the state's largest labor presence and is expected to turn out a sizable percentage of caucus-goers.
So far, most unions have endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton or former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. But the strength of those endorsements has been called into question during the campaign, when union members have three strong pro-labor candidates to choose from and no clear front-runner among organized labor...click to continue.
