One of Nevada’s largest unions – the Service Employees International Union – has scheduled a conference call with its executive board to discuss a potential presidential endorsement tonight at 8:30 p.m., according to several board members.
The union represents 17,500 healthcare and public sector workers in Nevada and decided last week to wait for the […]

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Despite reports that Culinary Workers Local 226 will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow morning (see Tim Russert’s unattributed pronouncement on the Today Show this morning), the 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers is still undecided.
In fact, no vote has taken place yet. That’s planned for 11 pm EST tonight when the executive committee […]

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Some news this morning on the all-important Culinary Union front.
UNITE HERE and its 60,000-member Las Vegas affiliate seem to have agreed that they’ll share in a single endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate — and it may not come until after the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus to improve their odds in betting on a winner.
But […]

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The Clinton campaign again adroitly sidestepped a union’s endorsement process.
The campaign announced today the endorsement of 350 teachers. (The Nevada State Education Association has about 28,000 members.) A source close to the teachers union says the union likely won’t endorse.
The Clinton campaign probably sensed this fact, and comes out with its own quasi-endorsement announcement […]

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The Culinary Union doesn’t relish surprises.
The 60,000-member union of casino and hotel workers is known for running a tight shop, and its discipline is second to none in Las Vegas when it comes to keeping internal business — well, internal.
So Culinary officials were as shocked as local political scribes when they read a report in […]

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