Economic Blackmail
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Corporate opponents of workers’ freedom to form unions repeatedly have shown they are not interested in the welfare of their employees or any of the pseudo-lofty ideals they cite while fighting the Employee Free Choice Act.
Now, they’ve made clear they will do anything—even destroy jobs, communities and harm the U.S. economy—to ensure that more American workers do not have a voice on the job. (And this just in—they’re now using Joe the Plumber as an anti-Employee Free Choice Act spokes-idiot. That guy can’t seem to keep a job.)
Obama Economic Plan: Create Made-in-America Jobs
President-elect Barack Obama today laid out some of the details of his economic recovery plan. While the current President focuses on giving the Medal of Freedom to the leader of a country that has the highest number of trade union murders in the world and on spending nearly $600,000 on new china for the White House days before leaving office, Obama is moving to clean up the Bush economic mess. Giving the Democratic radio address this morning, Obama said:
Our first job is to put people back to work and get our economy working again. This is an extraordinary challenge.
Indiana Working Families Share Economic Concerns with AFL-CIO President Sweeney
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Rita Dongas, communications coordinator for the Indiana State AFL-CIO, joined AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and workers in a roundtable session yesterday to discuss their concerns as we move toward the elections.
“It’s not like you can just find another job. There aren’t any around here,” said Kathleen South of IUE-CWA Local 919 at yesterday’s worker roundtable in Indianapolis. South, who recently lost her job after the Visteon plant she worked at for 22 years closed down in March, was one of eight recently displaced workers from across Indiana who shared their stories at the roundtable hosted by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and Indiana State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Joe Breedlove.
South continued:
I’ll be OK for a few more months but I know that eventually, I’m going to lose the house.
Obama’s Economic Plans Would Benefit America’s Workers
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The last time we faced a Bush recession, presidential candidate Bill—”It’s the economy stupid!”—Clinton offered voters an economic alternative to the failed Bush I policies and went on to create eight years of national prosperity.
Today, as the Bush II recession explodes, littering the nation’s economy with failed banks, Wall Street bailouts and disappearing jobs, Sen. Barack Obama offers an economic plan to steady the economy and bail out Main Street. (Click here to view Obama’s new two-minute campaign ad in which he details his economic plans.)
Speaking at the Machinists (IAM) convention last week, Obama said that for nearly eight years, the Bush administration—with the backing of Sen. John McCain, who has a 90 percent Bush voting record—sat back and watched as
corporate lobbyists wrote our laws and put their clients’ interest ahead of what’s fair for the American people.
