UNDERNEWS: Sanders gets nurses union endorsement

August 11, 2015

Sanders gets nurses union endorsement

NY Times - Bernie Sanders picked up his first major labor endorsement from the nation's largest organization of nurses, reflecting the Vermont senator's appeal among unions in his challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The 185,000-member National Nurses United endorsed Sanders during an event with the independent senator in Oakland, California.

Clinton received the backing of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers last month, a union that includes about 120,000 health care workers. But Sanders' endorsement is noteworthy because about 90 percent of the NNU's members are women, and it comes as the Democratic presidential field has been actively courting labor unions.

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