CT-Sen: State labor unions weigh U.S. Senate race support
Posted by lreznick on August 15th, 2006
State labor unions weigh U.S. Senate race support
Angela Carter, New Haven Register Staff
Some of the state’s labor unions are mulling whether to support Ned Lamont, the nominated Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, or Joseph I. Lieberman, who lost the primary against Lamont and is running as an independent, or stay neutral.
Members of Lamont’s campaign were in Hartford Monday meeting with the Service Employees International Union state council and the New England Health Care Employees Union, Local 1199. Neither union took sides in the Democratic primary for the Senate nomination earlier this month.
The Connecticut AFL-CIO also has to decide whether to continue its support of Lieberman, now that the primary is over. The executive committee of the umbrella organization is expected to address the issue in the near future.
The Democratic candidates in the Aug. 8 state primary were not the only ones who felt they had something to prove.
On a state and national level, the organized labor movement feels under attack by the political right and under pressure to respond. Decades of declining members and the loss of influence in the workplace and the political arena were complicated last year when two large unions and five smaller, yet significant ones, split from the AFL-CIO.
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