UTLA Board and House green-light process to explore endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for US President

[Donkees]

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019




Excerpt:

UTLA is moving forward with a unique process to help shape the U.S. presidential race by engaging members over the next eight weeks and conducting an advisory vote of chapter leaders to consider endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party primary. After that up-or-down advisory vote at the November 13 area meetings, the UTLA House will make the final decision on endorsement on November 14.

The process was approved by both the UTLA Board and the UTLA House. See the motion language here. The 35-1 vote of the UTLA Board on September 11 and the 135-46 vote of the House on September 18 indicate that the broad leadership of UTLA currently believes that Sanders is the candidate to consider endorsing. The Board and House votes also indicate that they want broad member and chapter leader involvement in making a decision regarding endorsement.

“Sanders is shaping up to be the candidate with the best chance not just to win the White House, but to actually change the conditions of massive inequality and underfunding of public education,” UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl says. “The process approved by our Board and House makes clear our broad union leaders’ recognition of Sanders’ unique platform while also going to our most important resource—our members and chapter leaders—for dialogue and advice before making this important decision.”

“Bernie Sanders has the only campaign that isn’t about an individual—it’s about a broad movement, just like our strike was,” UTLA/NEA Vice President Cecily Myart-Cruz says. “Our strike showed the nation what a fighting union looks like, and now we use that power to affect change on the national level by considering support for a candidate who cares about the things we care about.”





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