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Democrats Ask Unions For Convention Cash, Get Rebuffed

The Huffington Post | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012

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Democrats' self-imposed ban on corporate donations has made it tough to raise cash for the Democratic National Convention, and their hope that unions ...

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Obama Slams GOP Priorities

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. He blames Republicans fo...

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Obama Getting Big Boost From Key Constituency

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — Unions are gearing up to spend more than $400 million to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this election year...

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Obama Official Promises Push For New Pro-Union Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board hopes to have another round of regulations in place by the end of the year that ...

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Obama Picks Up Major Union Endorsement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees formally endorsed President Barack Obama's reelection on Tuesday, begin...

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Jay Carney On GE's Zero Income Tax Payments: One Might Say 'What The Heck'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney acknowledged once more on Thursday that average Americans would be confused, if not appalled, by ...

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Obama Shies Away From Union Protests

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in t...

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Obama Executes Above-The-Fray Strategy On High-Profile Issues

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Call it an above-the-fray strategy. On hot issues that Democrats and Republicans have found cause to fret about – from spend...

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Immelt Appointment Has Labor Worried, But Mostly Quiet

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Friday's announcement that General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt will serve as chair of the President's Council on Jobs and C...

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Obama To AFL-CIO: I Know You're Frustrated But Hang With Me

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoping to mend strained relations with the labor community, President Obama spoke to the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Wednesday, urging attendees to r...

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President Obama Wants You to Join the Union

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Friday, President Obama, a onetime organizer, had more words to say about unions, and they were the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven't heard from a president since FDR's day.

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Obama Bringing Big Labor Together After Years Of Division

Posted 05.25.2011

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The presidents of 12 of the nation's largest labor unions called Wednesday for reuniting the American labor movement, which split apart three and a ha...

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Unions Look For New Life Under Obama

New York Times | Steven Greenhouse | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unions are looking to Barack Obama and rising economic anxiety to reverse organized labor's long slide. Through three decades of decline, union leade...

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In Working-Class Pennsylvania, Union Reps and Football Stars Make Strong Case for Obama -- and Against McCain

Carl Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Organized labor has set its sights on winning Western Pennsylvania for Barack Obama. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeny came to the IBEW Local 712 Hall in Va...

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Obama, McCain And The Rights Of The American Worker

Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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And where does the Senior Senator from Arizona stand on the issue of worker's rights? Simple, he's a scab. He's anti-union and anti-worker and uses anachronistic images of big bad union bosses to slam reform legislation.

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Obama Camp Calls Unions "Special Interests"

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama has always excited big Labor and other Democratic constituencies, even if they weren't necessarily ready to endorse him for the presidenc...

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