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