1.0 link 162975 <![CDATA[President Obama Wants You to Join the Union]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/pesident-obama-wants-you_b_162975.html I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem, to me it's part of the solution.

-- President Barack Obama, January 30, 2009

The great union leader John L. Lewis, who headed the United Mine Workers from the '30s through the '50s and helped organize millions of workers into the CIO, used to declare in organizing drives: "President Roosevelt wants you to join the union." Roosevelt never said that in so many words, but...

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