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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 --- 33 days ago http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/08/05/obama-tells-afl-cio-hes-counting-on-union-move
 Jeanne Shaheen, left, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, addresses an Executive Council reception. Shaheen was one of several working family advocates at the reception who are battling anti-union incumbents for Senate seats. Barack Obama told the AFL-CIO Executive Council he is counting on the union movement's largest-ever voter mobilization to play a key role in his drive to take back the White House for working families on Election Day. Speaking via video conference at the council's two-day meeting in Chicago this morning, Obama pledged his support for the Employee Free Choice Act , new fair trade policies that don't reward companies for shipping jobs overseas, a major job-creating investment in rebuilding and repairing infrastucture and a new energy economy. The Executive Council also approved statements covering collective bargaining for federal workers, the growing fiscal crisis for state and local governments, education initiatives, the recent decision by the Air Force to award a multibillion-dollar air tanker contract to a foreign-led partnership and the Bush administration's recent made-in-secret rule on worker exposure to toxins. ... |
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