VP Biden on the Employee Free Choice Act

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.afscmeblog.org/2009/05/13/biden-to-afscme-unions-will-rebuild-the-middle-class/

Vice President Joe Biden, addressing the 2009 AFSCME Legislative Conference on Tuesday, said the way to rebuild the middle class is to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and level the playing field for unions.

As chair of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, Biden is focused on raising the living standard for middle-class families and improving the lives of working Americans. The best way to do that, says the vice president, is to make sure workers have the freedom to join a union.

“You know, I think it should be pretty simple. If a union is what you want, then a union is what you should get. It’s simple.”


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AFSCME’s 1.6 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in hundreds of different occupations — from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers — AFSCME is the voice of the dedicated workers who take care of America, and is a leading advocate for all working families.

[GreenTea]

1. Duh, Strong unions means a strong middle class - Unlike now, where all the money & our taxes goes to

corporations...who in return bust unions, steal our tax dollars via bailout & tax breaks, hide their money overseas to avoid paying any taxes, and then hire illegal undocumented workers here, while outsource American jobs for cheaper labor in right-wing dictator led nations around the world...as well being against Universal Health Care for all.

Fucking incompetent corporations, they fuck up their companies and then fire the workers as if it's their fault as the CEO's & Vice presidents give themselves bonuses and then beg for the same workers tax dollars to bail them out...

We need strong unions to stand up to these union busting lobbyist run corporations.

Help fight these corporations, suppression or workers, stealing of pensions & benefit and the republican corporations unbelievable greed support the Employee Free CHOICE Act!

[cooolandrew]

2. Sounds like reasons to be cheerful to me, Biden is a fighter that's half the work done. >

He also has the record for getting bi-partisan support.

[goddess40]

3. Without the unions there would be no middle class

I'm tired of the idiots that buy into the union busting lies.

[Wednesdays]

4. K&R

:kick:

[stlsaxman]

5. MSM: No gaffs from Biden- nothing to see here....

:eyes:


:bounce: - "Go, Joe. Go!"