Hillary Clinton Earns Backing Of Nation’s Largest Union: Some of the union members aren’t that happy with the endorsement.

Form Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday.

The union’s campaign arm had indicated that it was recommending the endorsement earlier this week, as Politico first reported. Members of the 3-million-strong union who support Clinton’s main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), have already protested the move, just as Sanders supporters from the American Federation of Teachers did when Clinton secured that union’s endorsement in July.

“Clinton is a strong leader who will do what is best for America’s students. For more than four decades, Clinton has fought to make sure all children have a fair opportunity to succeed regardless of their ZIP code,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the NEA, in a statement. “Clinton will continue to advocate on behalf of students, educators and working families because she understands the road to a stronger U.S. economy starts in America’s public schools.”

In an interview with The Huffington Post, García said that Clinton personally came and spoke to the organization’s 175-person board of directors in a session that left them “blew them away” because of Clinton’s understanding of what a president would have to do on certain education issues. Read more>>