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...States. When Lage’s grandfather tried to apply for a visa out of Cuba, he was thrown into a work camp for six years before finally receiving clearance to leave. Balmori’s grandfather had a similar experience in which he was forced to do manual labor before the communist regime would grant him a visa. At age 14, Balmori’s father was able to escape to Spain and spent several months in an orphanage before meeting his uncle in the United States in 1967. While Velo’ father was able to leave Cuba...
...government spending, Obama promises to shackle U.S. businesses with heavy regulation. If he becomes president, he’ll do more than bring change: he’ll force Americans into an economic straitjacket. To “rebuild the middle class,” Obama will resuscitate labor unions with the Employee Free Choice Act. It would allow a union to represent employees without holding a secret-ballot election. Once the union garnered a majority of employees’ signatures on authorization cards, it would automatically become their bargaining agent. Sounds like a free choice—until...
...York Senator by 4 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls, but amongst union voters he trails her 56% to 34% in the latest Cleveland Plain Dealer poll, conducted February 27-29. Either way, Obama can already claim one crucial victory; by effectively splitting labor's endorsements with Clinton, he has prevented her from solidifying what was supposed to be a reliable part of her base...
...nation's largest umbrella labor organization, the AFL-CIO, has yet to endorse a candidate, though they freed member unions to endorse whomever they wished. So far 12 of those unions have picked Clinton, including the powerful American Federation of State, Municipal and County Employees and the American Federation of Teachers; just five chose Obama...
...wasn't until Super Tuesday, in Georgia and his home state of Illinois, that Obama started to win the union vote. Since then, though, he's won labor in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. And, in a resounding victory that could presage a come-from-behind win in Ohio, Obama won Wisconsin 58% to Clinton's 41%, evenly splitting the union vote in a state where a third of Democratic primary voters come from union households; by contrast, 44% of Ohio Democratic voters come from union households...