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...most of Ohio's rural southeast, they point out, he did win union-heavy Cuyahoga County, usually the key to Democratic victories in Ohio. "In Ohio we had about 12 days notice between the endorsement and the primary," said Anna Berger, political director of the State Employees International Union (SEIU), one of nine unions supporting Obama. "We were on the ground earlier in terms of voter registration, voter mobilization in Pennsylvania. We have 75,000 members in state and we feel we can be pretty influential in Pennsylvania." And Pennsylvania, as everyone knows, will be enormously influential in determining...
...those volunteers is Frank Thornton, a 36-year-old organizer for the SEIU, who spent a recent typically snowy, windy Cleveland afternoon knocking on union household doors in the old Italian neighborhood known as "the flats." "Well, I was for Hillary but Obama says a lot of things I like to hear so I'm still on the fence," said Sherry Rowland, waving Thornton into her living room. "I feel like they've both saying the same things, though...
...Hoffa Jr., head of the Teamsters. His union did a third poll of their members after Edwards left the race. The first two had Edwards, Clinton and Obama all within the margin of error of one another. The last poll had Obama leading Clinton by double digits. Andy Stern, SEIU president, said his union saw similar results in its internal polls of members. "The polls showed what we were feeling, that there was a surge going on amongst our members like there was in the country for Senator Obama," Stern said. "In the beginning he was not so well known...
According to Jacobs, the starting wage for every worker will be increased from $12.68 to $14.50 per hour. The SEIU had set its standard of a "living wage" for the guards at $15 during negotiations...
While student action on campus pushing Harvard to address the issue captured a good deal of attention, Harvard Spokesman Joe Wrinn said that the contract was settled entirely between SEIU and AlliedBarton, with no real influence from the University...