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President Obama Wants You to Join the Union

Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

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Robert Kuttner

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 02.09.2009 | Politics

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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 01.29.2009 | Business

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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 11.27.2008 | Home

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Carl Davidson

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 10.26.2008 | Home

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Natasha Vargas-Cooper

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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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