Biden gets late boost with key union endorsement

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Biden gets late boost with key union endorsement
By Tal Axelrod - 10/23/20 04:31 PM EDT

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden got a late boost in the White House race Friday when he scored the endorsement of a prominent alliance of construction unions.

North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), which includes 14 unions representing nearly 3 million workers, announced it was backing the former vice president, touting his character and saying he’d support the country’s middle class.

“With so much at stake right now, America needs responsible, forward-thinking White House leadership that reflects American shared values and delivers on its promises. We need a President who keeps his word and will put America on a better path forward,” NABTU President Sean McGarvey said in a statement.

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Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

HOLLY OTTERBEIN and MEGAN CASSELLA   |   09/22/2020 04:30 AM EDT

.  .  .  .  Labor leaders have worked for months to sell their members on Biden, hoping to avoid a repeat of 2016 when Donald Trump outperformed among union members and won the White House. But despite a bevy of national union endorsements for Biden and years of what leaders call attacks on organized labor from the Trump administration, local officials in critical battleground states said support for Trump remains solid.

“We haven’t moved the needle here,” said Mike Knisley, executive secretary-treasurer with the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, who estimated that about half of his members voted for Trump in 2016 and will do so again. “Even if given all the information that’s been put out there, all the facts — just pick an issue that the president has had his hands in — it doesn’t make a difference.”

Among members of North America’s Building Trades Unions, there is a dead heat in six swing states, with Biden receiving 48 percent of the vote and Trump 47 percent, according to an internal poll shared with POLITICO.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/donald-trump-union-support-snub-joe-biden-418329