miamiherald.com - 12/5/2008
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Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's potential ascent to a Cabinet post in the Obama administration -- a possibility buzzed about for weeks -- is being challenged by a coalition of labor and activist groups who argue he has not done enough for working people. The coalition includes, most prominently, the ...
blogs.tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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Tim Fernholz at The American Prospect reports today
that union leaders are pleased as punch with Obama,...
particularly after he sided recently with workers protesting at a closed factory in Illinois. Jim Grossfeld, a labor consultant who's worked ...
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Union officials don't want Miami mayor in Obama Cabinet
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... record is he's ignored the middle class,'' said Fred Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO. ``The Obama election signified that working people were going to be respected, and he's shown no respect for working people.'' Union support played a key role in Obama's election, making the AFL-CIO's stance noteworthy. Frost recently put his objections in writing to the national AFL-CIO office in Washington, which vowed to pass them along to the Obama transition team. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/800134.html [image] Manny Diaz
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... is leaving Time's "Swampland" blog. * Miami Mayor Manny Diaz has been rumored as a leading candidate to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, but he's starting to draw heat from labor and activist groups , including the South Florida AFL-CIO. * Former Rep. David Bonior (D-Mich.) is trying to ...
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