[hoosiermama]

National AFSCME. did not endorse BO....was that why they didn’t get the contract? Were the two working together?

From:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/676801,120107obama.article

The Illinois chapter of the country’s major government-employees union broke with its national organization Saturday to endorse Barack Obama for president.

Nationally, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is backing Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the union’s Illinois leaders decided to make their own endorsement

In endorsing Clinton, national AFSCME leaders focused on her experience in Washington and her toughness as a candidate

[AmericanGirlRising]

SEIU appears to be close with 0 and Blago (see image on SEIU home page. Stern/SEIU have reported fights with AFSCME over Chicago/Illinois contracts.

Labor War in Chicago, 3/05, The American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=labor_war_in_illinois

from National Right to Work:

"In Blagojevich's first race for governor in 2002, the SEIU provided a thousand volunteers in the weeks before the primary election, enough to push the Congressman over his nearest rival by just one percent. As governor, Blagojevich repaid the SEIU by issuing executive orders that effectively ensured that the SEIU (and not AFSCME) would "represent" the 5,000 home-care workers and 48,000 child-care workers in the state."