After the CEO mmeting on Wednesday, President Obama will meet with 12 labor leaders and Secreatary of Labor Hilda Solis today.
President Barack Obama meets with labor leaders at the White House on Friday.
A dozen leaders from the country's largest unions will meet with the president. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis also will attend the meeting.
Labor leaders come to the White House
In the afternoon, the President will meet with approximately a dozen leaders from the country's largest labor organizations to discuss strengthening our economy, spurring growth, and creating good jobs for the American people, along with other issues of importance to working Americans.
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Anong those meeting with the President and Secretary Solis are:
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka
United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen (Chair, Change to Win)
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees President Gerald McEntee
Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry
United Auto Workers President Bob King
International Association of Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers President Ed Hill
National Association of Letter Carriers President Fred Rolando
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades President Jimmy Williams
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I hope labor leaders speak truth to power and there is a frank discussion, in the parlence of diplo-speak.
At least he is meeting with union leaders. That's about all I can say after last night. What's done is done. My advice to union leaders with President Obama is "trust, but verify."
And my observation is that I hope that this President understands that the Democratic Party (and he) need union support in 2012. He and they must earn it, and right now they have a big deficit of mistrust to overcome. If President Obama governs as a Republican the next two years, we all will vote accordingly. I don't vote for Republicans, even if they have Ds after their names.
If you want our votes, show us the next two years that you are at least the lesser evil.
Update I: From Gooserock:
Trust, But Organize (1+ / 0-)
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We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam"
by Gooserock on Fri Dec 17, 2010 at 06:31:31 AM PST
Update II: From EVale of the AFL-CIO
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But here's a blog post from this AM on the tax cut/UI deal and other fights coming up.
http://blog.aflcio.org/...
www.aflcio.org
by EVale on Fri Dec 17, 2010 at 08:18:40 AM PST
In an e-mail to union activists, Trumka warned the tax deal is just the initial battle working people will face between now and 2012, Trumka said. Soon, the same lawmakers who fought to get tax cuts for millionaires will come after Social Security and Medicare in the name of deficit reduction and "shared sacrifice." But they won’t ask Wall Street and moneyed interests to share in the sacrifice. Instead, they’ll come after working people, he said.
We must vigorously oppose solving our country’s long-term financial problems on the backs of working people. If the America we all love is going to survive this century—or even this decade –we’ve got to find a way to restore balance in our politics and our economy.
Trumka: Tax Deal First of Many Battles for Workers