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Clinton, Obama carve out backing of local unions

Little more than an hour after the 3 p.m. school bell rang, nearly two dozen teacher volunteers began to show up at their union's Suffolk headquarters in Hauppauge to stuff envelopes and make phone calls for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"We have to have a change," said Sayville retiree June Smith, a three-decade primary veteran who helped mobilize the recent effort. "She's been 100 percent on...

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