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Unions Prepare their Demands(Union payback coming from Obama - Card Check)
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Posted on 11/13/2008 5:54:00 PM PST by Fred

TPM reports that American labor leaders are coming to Washington to meet and spell out their priorities for the incoming Obama administration:

According to a senior AFL-CIO official, the labor leaders -- who could include AFL-CIO head John Sweeney, AFSCME chief Gerald McEntee, and others -- will be putting the finishing touches on plans for a national campaign, including possible TV ads, to press members of Congress for quick passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, one of labor's major agenda items.

The measure, which would give workers the right to join a union as soon as a majority of employees at a workplace say they want to, went down to defeat in 2007 and is likely to provoke huge opposition from business groups again this time around.

The labor heads will also discuss the Obama team's ongoing transition efforts and evaluate whether they think labor has had an adequate role in behind-the-scenes discussions, the AFL official said. One key topic: How labor can push harder right now for quick passage of an economic stimulus package, which labor leaders want done even before Obama takes office...

One sensitive topic likely to be discussed at the meeting: How the big unions can press their agenda aggressively right now, without being seen as publicly pushing the administration too hard at a point when it's just trying to find its footing. Labor's agenda dovetails in many ways with Obama's, but labor, just like every other series of powerful interest groups, is trying to strike the right balance in pressing the administration to prioritize their agenda.

Is Big Labor more concerned that Senator Obama will resent the pressure that they intend to apply, or that the public will see union bosses as calling the shots? In either case, eliminating the secret ballot is a poor way for the new administration to make a good first impression.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: aflcio; afscme; bailout; bho2008; cardcheck; chicagomob; chrysler; congress; democrats; detroit; economy; environmentalists; ford; gm; hoffa; honda; michigan; nissan; obama; pelosi; reid; seiu; taxes; teamsters; toyota; uaw; unions

1 posted on 11/13/2008 5:54:01 PM PST by Fred
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To: Fred
UAW chief urges $25 bln in U.S. auto health care support (Union bailout-payback for $400,000,000)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127523/posts

Who's your DADDY Obama??

Youtube The One on Card Check

Why Doesn't Toyota USA Need A Bailout?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2130909/posts
2 posted on 11/13/2008 5:55:26 PM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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To: Fred

Pay back is a b*tch. Some unions want to turn our entire country into GM...that’s what we have to look forward to.


3 posted on 11/13/2008 5:58:50 PM PST by johnnycap
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To: Fred
...funny how they have no problem forcing card check on employees but deny the average tax paying American fair voting by putting Federal Voting ID cards.
4 posted on 11/13/2008 6:03:20 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

by putting Federal Voting ID cards..(into law)


5 posted on 11/13/2008 6:04:23 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Of course the unions want theirs. That’s why GM isn’t going to get to declare bankruptcy.


6 posted on 11/13/2008 6:28:54 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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Of course the unions want theirs. That’s why GM isn’t going to get to declare bankruptcy.

Yet - we are just delaying the inevitable for a year or two. The unions will eventually bankrupt them.

These people do not understand that without profitable companies there are no jobs, without jobs there are no union dues, and without dues there is no union (or union bosses).

7 posted on 11/13/2008 7:03:14 PM PST by jim-x (God help America survive its enemies within.)
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If this crap passes, businesses should just shut their doors. There was a Wal-Mart in Canada that tried to unionize, Wal-Mart simply closed the store.
8 posted on 11/13/2008 7:07:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

TO ALL: Please watch this video at least once, preferably twice and save it. THE KGB AND BRAINWASHING OF THE WEST. http://www.fhu.com/kgb-brainwashing-video.html


9 posted on 11/13/2008 9:14:28 PM PST by 5280rwinger
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