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IFPTE Endorses Obama
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The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) union has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president.
The IFPTE Executive Council voted unanimously yesterday to endorse Obama. The union represents more than 75,000 engineers, technicians and scientists across the public and private sector.
IFPTE President Gregory Junemann says the IFPTE Executive Council believes in Obama’s ability to be a leader on health care, retirement security, protecting workers from privatization and outsourcing, ensuring worker-friendly trade and passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
While IFPTE applauds both Democratic candidates, our union’s internal polling results, coupled with Senator Obama’s unblemished record of support for the critical issues facing IFPTE, prompted our action to endorse Senator Obama. IFPTE’s Executive Council agreed that Senator Obama is the candidate best suited to address the major concerns of America’s working men and women.
Among AFL-CIO affiliates, Obama has been endorsed by the Boilermakers (IBB), the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA), the Postal Workers (APWU), the Transport Workers (TWU), which initially gave its endorsement to former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), and the Utility Workers (UWUA).
Two other unions that endorsed Edwards, the Mine Workers (UMWA) and United Steelworkers (USW), have not announced any plans to endorse another candidate for president.
Thirteen unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO have endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.): AFSCME, AFT, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), the Bricklayers (BAC), the Letter Carriers (NALC), Machinists (IAM), Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU), the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), the Plasterers and Cement Masons (OP&CMIA), Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA), TCU/IAM, the Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the United Transportation Union (UTU).
The IAM and IUPAT endorsements of Clinton in the Democratic primaries were accompanied by endorsements of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the UAW have announced they will not make endorsements during the primary season. The Fire Fighters (IAFF) union, which endorsed Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), has not announced a new endorsement.
In August, the AFL-CIO Executive Council said it would not yet make an endorsement for a 2008 presidential candidate, freeing AFL-CIO unions to endorse candidates for the caucuses and primaries. The AFL-CIO will continue the Working Families Vote 2008 campaign to help elect a worker-friendly Congress and president. The next test for the Democratic candidates happens on May 6, when Indiana and North Carolina hold primaries.
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If you like NAFTA, WTO and other anti-worker trade schemes vote for Clinton! Support the war on Iraq? Hillary’s your candidate. She voted “AYE”. Want more for-profit health care that is bankrupting workers and leaving 47 million without insurance? Join Hillary and the health insurance industry! You’ll all be on the same page!
On the other hand, if you want change from a corporatocracy that pawns itself off as “democracy” vote for Obama.
It’s your choice: Choose Clinton’s business as usual neoliberalism, or choose Obama and social and economic justice.
I refuse to vote for Obama, and it has nothing to do with his color. I just don’t like his foreign policy plans. He wants to open a dialog with and make concessions to the Hamas—an openly admitted terrorist sect that have claimed many many lives including some Americans, and repeatedly refused to cease-fire and allow peace talks to take hold in the middle east. He wants to attempt to open up communication channels with Fidel Castro the communist of Cuba and Hugo Chaves the wannabe tyrant of Venezuela—both these ‘leaders’ have been brutal and detrimental to the countries they rule. Why should we welcome them with open arms and say how can we help you? These are the kind of human garbage that, given enough freedom, would become the Hitlers of our time. The really should be deposed, preferably by the people they rule over, not bargained with. Ok so that’s just my opinion.
As for Clinton—ACK! Another Clinton, and the one married to the one who couldn’t keep it in his pants! I had to go watch a blurb on her presidential stance just to give me more ammunition…uh…information. Her promise is that she will immediately pull our troops out of Iraq within 60 days of being elected president—did you get that all you alqaida terrorists and jihadi extremists? Mark your calendars. It’s perfect! You will have exactly 60 days to start planning your counter insurgency to overthrow the current weak Iraqi government. Then it’s back to business as usual bombing US targets all over the world again. Yeah! Go Jihad!
McCain sang this song and it’s had well over a million views on Youtube. “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.” Need I say more? Ok I will—I like his tactics with Iraq in which he keeps the war in Iraq and doesn’t allow it to trickle back here, but I don’t care much for his plans for us at home—they just aren’t all encompassing enough to pull us out of this potential recession we seem to be spiraling into.
In fact none of our candidates have a clear plan for pulling us out of the slump. Sure McCain plans to cut the gas taxes, and income taxes to the middle class. Clinton wants to reform health care. Obama is looking at reforming the welfare system. None of this crap will do anything to stimulate the economy to create new jobs. Incentives and stimulus needs to be applied heavily to the Entrepreneurs—who are the biggest job creators in America—so they can put people back to work.