Obama To Address AFL-CIO On Labor Day

Hoping to bolster the spirits of this political base and make a late-stage to working voters, President Barack Obama will address a major gathering of union workers in Wisconsin on Labor Day.

The president will be speaking before a picnic organized by the AFL-CIO in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the White House confirmed. He will be joined at the event by the union federation's president Richard Trumka.

This will be the second appearance the president has made before the AFL-CIO in as many months. Earlier in the year, Obama addressed the union group's executive council, appealing to the members for their help and commitment as the election approached.

Last year, Obama made a similar appearance with Trumka at an AFL-CIO picnic in Ohio -- in that case, with hopes of getting health care reform passed into law. Since then, however, friction has developed between the administration and the labor community based predominantly on the belief from the latter that the former hasn't pushed hard enough on the jobs-creation front. Unions are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars during the 2010 election cycle. But there is growing concern within Democratic circles that their members won't be motivated to come to the polls in November.

Comments

[firedup49]

05:26 PM on 09/01/2010

Is Obama the President of the Union or President of the USA

[TimTheWizard]

01:11 PM on 08/31/2010

Following the speech, Obama will join some union members and go set a few businesses and warehouses on fire.

[only livin boy in NY]

11:14 AM on 08/31/2010

surprised he knows the address...­elections must be comin up

[NoahVail]

10:45 AM on 08/31/2010

We can fight these guys and we can win.

http://my.­barackobam­a.com

[Weitberg]

10:02 AM on 08/31/2010

"Hoping to make a push with union workers, President Obama will address a large gathering of the AFL-CIO on Labor Day. White House officials hope that he gets a more animated response than he did speaking to a dense clump of trees on Arbor Day."

TheWeekinR­ebuke.com

[konkyboy]

09:31 AM on 08/31/2010

One day in the year the President says hello. And the bosses complain.

[OliverTwist]

09:26 AM on 08/31/2010

Why? Obama is no friend of labor.

[StuManChu]

09:25 AM on 08/31/2010

Saw these clowns in front of Fresh and Easy (fantastic store by the way). Should be a real hoot.

[janedorothy4]

08:45 AM on 08/31/2010

Obama should do more than address the unions. He should sing a thankyou song and do a little dance for them and in turn unions should blow kisses and recite poetry to him as this is a very powerful pairing . The rest of us can only hope to have such a president pay us back so consistent­ly for our vote.

[johnnyybgood]

08:28 AM on 08/31/2010

ARE YOU EMBARRASSE­D YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA????

I say HELL NO!!!

These folks would like to know if anyone is embarrasse­d………PLEASE LET THEM KNOW!!!!


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Your Country Thanks You

[samtee]

07:20 AM on 08/31/2010

Unions need to be abolished before they get all of our money.

[wdw505]

08:08 AM on 08/31/2010

i would support that

[PWM]

08:27 AM on 08/31/2010

If it was not for unions we would still have child labor and work 7 days a week 18 hours a day.

[BigBirdxx]

10:09 AM on 08/31/2010

Hey, at least we would be employed! Chuckle.

[MRb1000]

04:30 AM on 08/31/2010

they need to support this president because he has supported them!

[lemealone]

09:32 AM on 08/31/2010

you mean he paid them off.

[Righteous Fury]

01:36 AM on 08/31/2010

I'm in a union and guess what folks I'm getting a raise!

You're not getting a raise? Oh well sucks to be you.

You're losing your job? Oh well sucks to be you.

There's no economic crisis in America right now. You think there's an economic crisis because the fascist banksters and their pawn politician­s say there's a crisis but their isn't.

Foreclosur­e crisis? Nonsense! Plenty of beautiful houses to live in.

Stressed about losing your job? Blame only yourself.

The boss man is going to keep kicking you and kicking you because you lie on the ground and take it.

And you cry and complain and eat fatty food and watch dancing with the stairs and wait for Obama to do something as if.

The truth is nothing was ever given to our Forefather­s. The liberties and wealth (dwindling they may be) we enjoy today were earned.

Earned with their blood, sweat and tears. (Good band.)

"And for the support of this Declaratio­n, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence­, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

What have you pledged? $10 to the DNC? $10 is what the drunk pays your daughter for a lap dance. Hey it helps pay off her student loans.

Workers of the world unite!
Karl Marx, 1848

I'm in a union. I'm getting a raise.

[Poorsarah]

10:24 AM on 08/31/2010

yes, you're in a union; but what really sucks is your attitude toward those who are struggling to find work at this time...the unemployed­...if I were in your union, I would call for a vote to boot you out...the millions of jobs outsourced because of deregulati­on for corporatio­ns really started to take hold when Reagan was prez...and if anyone has any questions about which political party is the biggest spender and creates the most debt, it is the GOP/TEA

http://hom­e.adelphi.­edu/sbloch­/deficits.­html

[Righteous Fury]

12:19 PM on 08/31/2010

I'm in a union. I'm getting a raise. If you want a raise you should start/join a union too. You should vote for political leaders who value and support union workers.

I feel terribly for my family members and friends who have lost their jobs but they weren't in a union and many of them voted Republican­.

I'm in a union. I'm getting a raise.

[yumenyukuaile]

01:27 AM on 08/31/2010

Via the Internet, visit the U.S. trade union organizati­on's web site. The working class is mutual understand­ing between the two countries, mutual support, because we share a common pursuit. Trade union organizati­ons of the exchanges and cooperatio­n, the Chinese trade unions will also be measures to meet the changing needs of the developmen­t trend of internatio­nal trade union organizati­ons, based on China's national conditions­, highlighti­ng the maintenanc­e function.

[yumenyukuaile]

01:27 AM on 08/31/2010

通过国际互联网，浏览­美国工会组织网站。两­国工人阶级是相互的理­解，相互的支持，因为­，我们有着共同的追求­。两国工会组织的交流­与合作，也将措施中国­工会不断迎合国际工会­组织的发展潮流，立足­中国国情，凸显维权职­能。
Via the Internet, visit the U.S. trade union organizati­on's web site. The working class is mutual understand­ing between the two countries, mutual support, because we share a common pursuit. Trade union organizati­ons of the exchanges and cooperatio­n, the Chinese trade unions will also be measures to meet the changing needs of the developmen­t trend of internatio­nal trade union organizati­ons, based on China's national conditions­, highlighti­ng the maintenanc­e function.