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nytimes.com - 11/12/2008

After Push for Obama, Unions Seek New Rules

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Labor unions, delighted to have a friend in the White House, plan to push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to unionize. >

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nytimes.com - 11/12/2008

Democrats Seek Help for Automakers

— nytimes.com — Congressional leaders said that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the auto industry, setting... the stage for one last showdown with President Bush. > (more) Democrats Seek Help for Automakers

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Why Employees Need Free Choice to Join Unions: Let’s Cut to the Chase
Firedoglake — ... Saturday's New York Times had a lengthy piece by Steven Greenhouse about the growing chorus for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would restore free choice for people who want to join a union. Towards the end of the article is a simple sentence that bears further examination, because it gets to the heart of why we need Employee Free Choice: the coercive campaign to which companies subject their employees in their efforts to stop workers from organizing. ...

GRITtv Live: What Labor Wants From Obama
Firedoglake — ... , which would make it easier for unions to organize. Perhaps as a measure of how ambitious the effort will be, the anti-union and pro-business Chamber of Commerce said: “This will be Armageddon.” But will Obama be able to turn around the decades long decline in union membership? And will unions have a role in reshaping American capitalism? ...

Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Holding the New Democratic Majority Together -- Part 2
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... is a lack of ideas.  Even though he has resigned his Senate seat and is asserting that Bush should be given the opportunity to serve out the remaining weeks of his term as America's only President, it will not be easy to stay out of the issues of the day, and once he is in the Oval office, it will be impossible.  The challenge of the moment is the automobile industry bailout and while it will not be easy to satisfy the competing interests of the auto industry, labor unions, environmentalists, and our trading partners, this seems to ...

Let's Dance, Biden Tells Labor
The Caucus — ... unions, including the painters, firefighters, teachers and mine workers, for campaigning alongside him in various states last fall. “It’s good to be home,” Mr. Biden told a ballroom in the Fountainebleau Hotel that was filled with union leaders and their aides. “The best place for me to be in my whole career is to be surrounded by organized labor.” Then, he added to huge applause, “You all brought me to the dance a long time ago, and it’s time we start dancing.” He also championed union organizing legislation , a proposal that is becoming one of the more contentious proposals ...