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Instead, labor unions, especially those affiliated with mainland internationals, are expected to play the biggest role in voter turnout.
The United Service Workers, an affiliate of AFSCME in the U.S., has opened three Clinton campaign offices and is spearheading a major Memorial Day rally for the city of Caguas.
Meanwhile, local affiliates of the Service Employees International Union are planning a huge march for May 31 in San Juan, where Obama is expected to speak.
SEIU's national convention will be in Puerto Rico that same week, so the union plans to have several thousand of its members from the U.S. on the island then.
The SEIU march and the Obama event the day before the primary is likely to become embroiled in a still-raging island labor dispute.
Rafael Feliciano, president of teachers' union, Puerto Rico's biggest union and a group that supports neither candidate, vowed Friday to conduct his own march against the SEIU convention to protest that union's backing of government efforts this year to crush a teachers' strike.