The Teamsters Union is expected to announce their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as their choice for president Wednesday. This is the second major union endorsement for Obama in a week.
Obama will meet with Teamster President James P. Hoffa in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. The official announcement is expected to come shortly after their meeting.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represent 1.4 million workers.
The endorsement from the Teamsters is Obama's fourth from organized labor in a week. The 65,000-member International Brotherhood of Boilermakers endorsed Obama on Wednesday, the 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union backed the Democratic presidential candidate last Friday, and the smaller United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed him last Thursday.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a much larger number of unions' support with 12 endorsements from unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, and the United Farm Workers from the rival Change To Win labor federation.
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