Fired Up, Ready to Go: Change to Win Endorses Sen. Barack Obama for President

Link to the original story at Change To Win

In a few minutes, we will make the official announcement to the media that Change to Win is endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.

Here are some excerpts from the remarks that Change to Win Chair Anna Burger will be delivering at the announcement:

Our members and the 40 million workers in our industries are real people who work hard picking the crops, stocking the shelves, preparing and serving our food, building, cleaning and guarding the skyscrapers of our big cities. They drive our buses and trucks.

They care for the sick and elderly and help us raise our children. They are the infrastructure of our society

For them, this election is about changing America to win a better future for our children.

We want a president who shares our vision and is committed to a practical program to translate that vision into action.

Action that will fix what happens at work by:

-Protecting the right of workers to have a voice in their workplaces
-Health care for every man, woman and child in America
-Fair trade policies to promote job growth
-Creating good jobs through rebuilding and expanding our nation’s infrastructure

Most importantly, we want a president who shares our dream and unites Americans in building a movement for change. ….a movement with the power to turn that dream into reality.

Today, Change to Win is proud to endorse Senator Barack Obama.

I’ll be posting a copy of our official statement and links to other resources shortly. In the meantime, here’s the video of Senator Obama’s address to our Second Biennial Convention last September, if you didn’t catch it then…

And if you want to embed the speech in your blog, there’s an embeddable highlight reel available on YouTube.

UPDATE (2:23PM): Here’s our press release, and here’s the complete text of Anna Burger’s remarks from the announcement. Oh, and if you’re with the media, we have downloadable high-resolution (300dpi) photos of Senator Obama addressing our second biennial convention last year for your use too.

UPDATE (4:55PM): Coverage from the New York Times’ politics blog, The Caucus — “Change to Win Gets Behind Obama”:

Its member unions represent 175,000 workers in Ohio alone. Nationwide, the group represents more than five million workers. And now Change to Win, a coalition of seven unions, is jumping on board the Barack Obama bandwagon…

To maximize the help they can give Mr. Obama, Change to Win officials said the leaders of the service employees, Teamsters, food and commercial workers and Unite Here are planning to be in Ohio at the same time next week to campaign with Mr. Obama.

The coalition’s leaders praised Mr. Obama’s positions on many issues, although they added they were also pleased with Mrs. Clinton’s and Mr. Edwards’s positions on the issues.

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