LAS VEGAS - A half-dozen Democratic presidential candidates will descend on Las Vegas on Saturday to pitch themselves to one of America’s largest unions as champions of workers and kitchen-table issues. The daylong forum is organized by the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Service Employees International Union. The former vice-president will not be in Las Vegas on Saturday but will hold his first public event on Monday at a union hall in Pittsburgh. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, speaking to hundreds of airline and rail workers at a union convention in Las Vegas earlier this month, pledged to enforce prevailing wage laws. SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry said the union has no timeline for an endorsement but does not expect one soon.

Source: thestar April 27, 2019 04:07 UTC