By Dick Meister.
It's clear that Barack Obama is well on the way to becoming the most
pro-labor president since Franklin D. Roosevelt - clear that he's
firmly committed to strengthening the vital union rights that FDR
secured for U.S. workers seven decades ago.
Consider Obama's address to the AFL-CIO's national convention in
Pittsburgh on Sept. 15. Yes, the president was speaking to a friendly
audience, saying what the convention delegates wanted him to say and
promising them what they wanted him to promise. But his were not empty words.
There's no doubt Obama meant it when he declared that "when organized
labor succeeds, that's when our middle class succeeds. And when our
middle class succeeds, that's when the United States of America
succeeds... We'll grow our middle class by building a strong labor movement."
You need look no further for proof of Obama's firm commitment to
labor than his appointing, as secretary of labor, former
Congresswoman Hilda Solis, an exceptionally strong advocate of
working people and their unions.
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