As Pete Buttigieg is competing for a victory in Iowa, he’s missing support from a key Democratic demographic: unions.
Some unions with top-tier benefits are nervous about talk of ‘Medicare for all’ in the Democratic presidential primary, fearing it would reduce control of their hard-won healthcare.
At one point in the race, the president of the AFL-CIO’s Arkansas branch called Clinton a “friend of big business” who’s “been the lesser of two evils in a right-to-work state in the Deep South.” Many labor supporters instead backed the more liberal Sen.
Buttigieg has embraced sweeping labor policies that overlap significantly with those of the democratic socialist Sanders — proposals for; allowing farmworkers, domestic workers and gig workers like Uber drivers to unionize; and massive penalties for companies that interfere with union elections. Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara, called the Democrats’ proposals “much more progressive — radical, you could say — than even 10 years ago.” For Buttigieg, who has courted union members at labor forums, he said, “not getting endorsements doesn’t mean he’s a right-wing guy.”Buttigieg is not totally without support.
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