The Democratic Party remains divided over its candidate for president, but the two battling contenders were greeted with enthusiasm at the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept.’s annual legislative conference in Washington, D.C., even as some craft unions have yet to endorse either.
With no official Democrat nominee to back, union representatives heard from both Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) during the meeting on April 14-16, focusing for now on an “anyone but McCain” approach.