Democratic Primaries

Uncle Joe

(58,349 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2019, 05:52 PM Dec 2019

All the 2020 Democrats in next week's debate threaten to skip event, refuse to cross picket line

All of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates threatened Friday to skip next week’s debate as they pledged support for workers in a contract dispute at the university where it will take place.

The seven contenders who qualified said they will not cross a picket line at Loyola Marymount University, where the Democratic National Committee will hold Thursday’s debate. UNITE HERE 11, a culinary union that represents 150 workers at the university, said it will boycott the event after negotiations with food services company Sodexo fell apart. Sodexo employs those workers at the school.

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UNITE HERE 11, which represents about 32,000 hospitality workers in southern California and Arizona, said workers started picketing at Loyola Marymount last month. Sodexo canceled scheduled negotiations last week, the union said.

In a statement, a Sodexo spokesperson said the company is “100% committed to reaching an agreement, and any statement that we have left the bargaining table is not accurate.” The spokesperson added that the company “has been negotiating in good faith” with the union for about a year.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/warren-biden-and-sanders-threaten-to-skip-2020-democratic-debate.html

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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All the 2020 Democrats in next week's debate threaten to skip event, refuse to cross picket line (Original Post) Uncle Joe Dec 2019 OP

Here are the seven: George II Dec 2019 #1

Always thought that a debate in mid December when many are trying to think of holidays question everything Dec 2019 #2

Great story! Mike Nelson Dec 2019 #3

"Find an alternate place" brooklynite Dec 2019 #5

Somebody needs to decide this quickly; I already have plane tix and a hotel reservation... brooklynite Dec 2019 #4

The power of solidarity. I love it. BeckyDem Dec 2019 #6

Link to The Guardian nitpicker Dec 2019 #7

George II

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1. Here are the seven:

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2019, 05:55 PM

Dec 2019

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and billionaire activist Tom Steyer threatened to sit out the debate.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden