{"id":786,"date":"2016-03-24T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=786"},"modified":"2016-03-25T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:00:35","slug":"bernie-sanders-picks-up-major-union-endorsement-ahead-of-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/03\/24\/bernie-sanders-picks-up-major-union-endorsement-ahead-of-caucuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Picks Up Major Union Endorsement Ahead Of Caucuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4d6zw4MCLWA\/VvVuK9V1fiI\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/6Jb3aowZFEkLpZNPFG2qfbVXPU6ra-ubwCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160324_1757%2BBernie%2BSanders%2BPicks%2BUp%2BMajor%2BUnion%2BEndorsement%2BAhead%2BOf%2BCaucuses%2B%2528HuffPost%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/Campaign2016V3#6266035591099809314&#8243; caption=&#8221;Bernie Sanders Picks Up Major Union Endorsement Ahead Of Caucuses By Dave Jamieson, Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post(Mar. 24, 17:57) &#8212; A powerful West Coast union of dock and warehouse workers has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president, giving his campaign a boost heading into a series of primary contests there.The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union said its executive board voted on the endorsement Thursday. Its president, Robert McEllrath, said in a statement that Sanders is \u201cbest on the issues that matter most to American workers.\u201d The union, known for its militant history, now represents roughly 50,000 workers in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=786&#8243; type=&#8221;image&#8221; alt=&#8221;20160324_1757 Bernie Sanders Picks Up Major Union Endorsement Ahead Of Caucuses (HuffPost).jpg&#8221; ] Bernie Sanders Picks Up Major Union Endorsement Ahead Of Caucuses<br \/>\n By Dave Jamieson, Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>(Mar. 24, 17:57) &#8212; A powerful West Coast union of dock and warehouse workers has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president, giving his campaign a boost heading into a series of primary contests there.<\/p>\n<p>The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union said its executive board voted on the endorsement Thursday. Its president, Robert McEllrath, said in a statement that Sanders is \u201cbest on the issues that matter most to American workers.\u201d The union, known for its militant history, now represents roughly 50,000 workers in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/bernie-sanders-union-endorsement_us_56f45bbae4b0a37218198cce\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4d6zw4MCLWA\/VvVuK9V1fiI\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/6Jb3aowZFEkLpZNPFG2qfbVXPU6ra-ubwCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160324_1757%2BBernie%2BSanders%2BPicks%2BUp%2BMajor%2BUnion%2BEndorsement%2BAhead%2BOf%2BCaucuses%2B%2528HuffPost%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/Campaign2016V3#6266035591099809314&#8243; caption=&#8221;Bernie Sanders Picks Up Major Union Endorsement Ahead Of Caucuses By Dave Jamieson, Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post(Mar. 24, 17:57) &#8212; A powerful West Coast union of dock and warehouse workers has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president, giving his campaign a boost heading into a series of primary contests there.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,167,29,84],"tags":[202,466,468,469,467],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders-2016","category-campaign-2016","category-news","category-politics","tag-endorsement","tag-international-longshoremen","tag-robert-mcellrath","tag-union","tag-warehouse-union","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}