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Just today, Sen. John McCain said it would be “very, very, very unfortunate,” if the nation’s workers had a level playing field and smoother path to higher pay, better health care and pensions, a place in the nation’s middle class and the other advantages that come with the union difference.
Today, in an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, McCain made clear once again his anti-worker, anti-union outlook. Asked about the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would level the playing field for the 60 million workers who say they would join a union if they could, McCain said he’d veto it “in a New York minute.”
I will do everything in my power to block such legislation. And imagine, Sen. Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pushing the union agenda, it would be very, very, very unfortunate.
Let’s see. Along with the freedom to form unions, what other “very, very, very unfortunate” items are on the “union agenda“?
There’s quality, affordable health care for all and we can’t forget good jobs with good wages.
Then there’s retirement security and quality public education and affordable higher education.
How about fair trade agreements that don’t ship U.S. jobs overseas and trade agreements that protect workers’ rights and the environment?
Sen. Barack Obama says he will sign the Employee Free Choice Act that restores workers’ freedom to form unions and helps put an end to the vicious anti-union campaigns, harassment and intimidation tactics most employers use to deny workers a voice at work.
The question is, just who does McCain think will find that union “agenda” so darn unfortunate? Perhaps it’s the monopolies that fight tooth and nail against workers trying to form unions, or the private insurance industry that reaps hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the nation’s broken health care system, or maybe it’s the corporations that have shipped millions of good U.S. jobs overseas.
You know—the same big money interests who are desperately praying and generously paying for a McCain win.
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Again, who is putting the country first? Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act. McCain not only does not support it, but he believes it would be “very, very, very unfortunate” if it were passed. Unfortunate for who, Mr. McCain? What would be ‘very, very, VERY unfortunate’ would be for YOU to get elected. Our country deserves much better than what you are offering the American people.
I will say we will be in a world of hurt if this man elected. think about his agenda and comments “very unfortunate’ He says on one hand that he doesn’t want raise taxes but on the other and he wants to tax our health care benfits. I don’t know about that sure sounds like a tax to me. He will not support the free choice act which if he did would give works better wages and Health care , These would be the same workers who not need any gov. assistance and by his purposal the ones he wants to tax for having health care. Our people of this great nation should consider Who this man is really representing ,to me its not the working class of people,he represent only big corps.