While the Democratic Party remains divided over its candidate for the presidential elections in November, construction unions weighed in on the debate during the three-day Building and Construction Trades Dept. annual legislative conference in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Barack Obama, who has already been endorsed by the teamsters and plumbers' unions, addressed the conference April 15, while Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke the following day. Clinton has the endorsement of the bricklayers, sheetmetal workers, painters and the plasterers and cement masons unions.