Hillary Clinton picked up another union endorsement in the newest sign that organized labor is coalescing behind the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union pledged its support to Clinton soon after she scored the support of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation.
“During her career, Hillary Clinton has had a solid record of support on those issues most important to working families and union members, including workers’ rights and organizing, workplace health and safety, health care, progressive tax policy and retirement security,” said David B. Durkee, BCTGM president, in a statement.
Durkee also slammed Trump for his “notorious history of outsourcing work to low-wage countries such as Mexico and China.”
“Beyond his advocacy of policies that are against the interests of working people and organized labor, Donald Trump’s vile bigotry towards Latinos and other ethnic groups is deplorable and antithetical to the principles and values upon which this Union was built and to which we will always adhere,” Durkee said.
Clinton issued a statement saying she was honored to receive BCTGM’s endorsement and praised them for helping to “build the greatest middle class in history.”
“As President, I will always have workers’ backs,” Clinton said in a statement. “I will stand with the BCTGM to fight for workers’ rights to organize, to bargain collectively, to be safe on the job, and to retire with dignity and security after years of hard work. Workers will always have a seat at the table and a champion in the White House—because when workers are strong, America is strong.”
