by Seth Michaels, Jul 22, 2008

The Letter Carriers (NALC) union has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

More than 8,000 delegates at the NALC Biennial Convention voted unanimously  to endorse Obama and mobilize the union’s more than 300,000 members to help elect him and other working family-friendly candidates.

Obama’s name was presented to the convention for the endorsement vote by Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom the NALC endorsed in September of last year.

NALC president William Young said Obama would support the NALC and all working families on preventing the outsourcing of jobs and protecting the freedom to form unions. He described Sen. John McCain as “consistently hostile to working men and women.”

Sen. Obama has clearly shown he can mobilize this country for change, and he has demonstrated a remarkable level-headedness about the war in Iraq from the start. The NALC will do everything in its power to make him the next president of the United States.

The key to rebuilding the labor movement is political change at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.—the Congress and the White House.

Last month, the AFL-CIO endorsed Obama and launched a new website, Meet Barack Obama, to educate and mobilize union members. This fall, the AFL-CIO is carrying out an unprecedented grassroots mobilization to elect a working family-friendly Congress and president.

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