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The Transportation Communications Union (TCU/IAM) has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
In the announcement, Robert Scardelletti, president of the TCU/IAM, pledged to mobilize the 55,000-member union behind Obama and a pro-working family Congress.
Scardelletti said that on wages, health care, taxes, Social Security, worker safety and particularly the issues important to transportation industry workers, there’s no comparison between the candidates.
Obama supports workers and will fight for them, while Sen. John McCain will take the country in the wrong direction, Scardelletti said.
Our nation is in desperate need of a president who will reverse the disastrous course of these last eight years and lead us in a positive direction. The person for the job is Barack Obama. He is the leader who can bring this country together again.
Sen. Obama has a solid record as a champion of working families. He stands for the change America needs—for building a strong national passenger rail system by adequately funding Amtrak long-term, for commuter transit, for good jobs, affordable health care, retirement security and worker safety. Obama understands the importance of unions in maintaining and building a strong American middle class and the need for public policy that protects working families.
While McCain has stood against us at every turn, Obama stands with us.
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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