marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/16/2009
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Here's a transcribed portion of President-elect Barack Obama's interview yesterday with the Washington Post:
Q: The Employee Free Choice Act - a timing question and a substance question: in terms of timing how quickly would you like to see it brought up? Would ...
aflcio.org - 1/22/2009
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... Barack Obama, in an interview with the Washington Post, had this to say about the Employee Free Choice Act, under which a union could become the bargaining representative for employees without the employees voting for this result in a secret ballot. ...
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... The most pro-worker administration in generations is now in power. But, you wouldn't know that from the traditional media. At a meeting last month with the Washington Post editorial Board, President Obama made very supportive and welcome remarks about the Employee Free Choice Act: ...
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... But in the same Washington Post interview Obama also expressed willingness to talk with management about tweaks and modifications. Which, concerning ballot secrecy at least, seems to some like debating pregnancy: You are or you aren't; it is or it isn't. ...
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... about being "the most effective way to reach America's affluent Republicans." And the "business-killing bill?" It's the Employee Free Choice Act, a/k/a "card check." The article says nothing about it killing business, merely that it "will make it easier for workers to unionize through open-ballot elections." In other words, Fox added the inflammatory, biased language on its own. Screen grab after the jump. ...
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