Word: unionizers
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...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...
...militant bases in the area. Adam said all outsiders - both the militants, and the Ethiopian and U.S. warplanes that hunt them - were a curse. "The Americans bomb. The Ethiopians bomb. And the ICU threaten us on the ground," he said, using the acronym for the Somali Islamic Courts Union, driven out of Mogadishu by a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. "None of these people are from here...
...Ohio spokesman. "And we're still behind in the polls. This was always going to be a tough state for us." Indeed, not only does Obama still trail the New 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...
...When asked about the recent spate of union endorsements of Obama, Harold Ickes, one of Clinton's top strategists, said, "Well, we'd rather have the endorsements than not, but those unions made their decisions. Senator Clinton has a very strong union base...They will be putting resources in. We have sufficiently strong resources to run a very, very strong, very, very vigorous campaign in the state...
...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...