{"id":11661,"date":"2015-07-15T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2015-07-15T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:29:20","slug":"labor-leaders-meet-with-presidential-candidate-sen-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/15\/labor-leaders-meet-with-presidential-candidate-sen-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Leaders Meet with Presidential Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU -07\/13\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2013<strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>A \u201cmeet and greet\u201d was held at the office of the American Postal Workers Union this evening between more than 40 U.S. labor leaders and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is running for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBernie Sanders has been an outspoken champion of postal customers, postal workers and the public Postal Service \u2013 demanding expanded services for all Americans, an end to mail delays, and an end to the closure of postal facilities,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he has been a forceful advocate for working people for decades. He\u2019s not in the pocket of big corporations. We thought it was important to hear his ideas about the 2016 campaign \u2013 especially how he plans to take on the big-money interests that are strangling our political system and our economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been tremendous interest and excitement about his campaign in the labor movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting at APWU\u2019s office was co-hosted by former president of the Communications Workers of America Larry Cohen, APWU President Mark Dimondstein and APWU Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Powell. Neither the APWU nor the CWA has endorsed a presidential candidate in 2016. Both unions are affiliates of the AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10087\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg\" alt=\"1-APWU-New\" width=\"478\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU -07\/13\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A \u201cmeet and greet\u201d was held at the office of the American Postal Workers Union this evening between more than 40 U.S. labor leaders and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is running for president. \u201cBernie Sanders has been an outspoken champion of postal customers, postal workers and the public Postal Service \u2013 demanding expanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}