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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Union Officials: Obama Should Hit Harder On Economy, Not Worry About "Class War" Label
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Jonathan Tasini: Labor's Election Ground War--And How The Media Is Missing It
Firedoglake: Conventional Wisdom Brewing: Screw the Janitors
TPM Election Central: SEIU Ad Aimed At Obama, Schwarzenegger, To Begin Airing Wednesday
Union Officials: Obama Should Hit Harder On Economy, Not Worry About "Class War" Label
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Andy Stern has a message for Barack Obama: do not fear being accused of waging "class war" by speaking out for middle class and poor families.
On the sidelines of a pre-convention Sunday event in Denver, the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said that the "class war" charge -- often levied to good effect against Democratic presidential candidates -- has jumped the shark. Citing new polling numbers on the economy, which will be released Monday by the Change To Win coalition of unions, Stern told the Huffington Post: "People appreciate that power has been re-balanced away from them -- that economic fairness has come out of balance, ...
Jonathan Tasini: Labor's Election Ground War--And How The Media Is Missing It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Yesterday, I attended two briefings in Denver held by labor leaders that gave very concrete outlines to labor's battle plan for the 2008 elections: where resources will be deployed and how much money will be spent. Both briefings were sparsely attended by the traditional media--and, while they seem obsessed by polling snapshots, they are missing an important component to the election battle ahead that polls don't catch--but count for millions of mobilized voters. I think this will be the difference in the election. Here's why.
The first briefing was conducted by the Service Employees International Union in a meeting space in the Opera House in Denver's ...
Conventional Wisdom Brewing: Screw the Janitors
Firedoglake —
Michelle Bernard and Pat Buchannan were on Hardball talking about EFCA this week. Republican Bernard gave some advice to Obama, saying "I think card check would be the worst thing he could possibly do now or ever." Republican Buchanan agreed with her.
The unions turned out big for Obama ...
NBC’s Mark Whittaker: Obama Should Sistah Souljah Blogs, Unions
Firedoglake —
Mark Whittaker, the NBC News Washington Bureau Chief who replaced Tim Russert, on Chris Matthews this weekend:
MATTHEWS: OK. Who's going to break it to the blogosphere? They don't like anything that looks like a give to the right. Where are they going to be on this thing? Are ...
Has Obama Forgotten about Pauline Beck?
Firedoglake —
Looks like it.
In August of 2007, candidate Barack Obama did a high profile “walk a day in the shoes” of California homecare worker Pauline Beck. The SEIU’s video of the event showed Obama bantering with her family at the kitchen table, and Beck was later given a speaking slot at the ...
SEIU Ad Aimed At Obama, Schwarzenegger, To Begin Airing Wednesday
TPM Election Central —
Ads to run in Los Angeles and other California media markets starting Wednesday tie President Barack Obama to the recent decision by the state government to slash the wages of home health workers.
According to a source at the Service Employees International Union, the ad features Pauline Beck, an SEIU nurse who participated in a campaign event with Obama two years ago, and spoke at the Democratic National Convention, but who will now be affected by the cuts. Though the source had not seen a script of the ad (and therefore could not confirm whether, or to what extent, it implicates the administration for abandoning attempts to prevent the cuts) it's ...
