Although he hasn’t quite kicked off his first official campaign events, President Obama roused an organized labor crowd on Monday as if it were a full-fledged rally. Obama spoke to a capacity crowd of 3,000 delegates at the Building and Construction Trades Department’s 2012 National Legislative Conference in Washington. The president clearly is working to fire up labor unions to come out for him this year much as they did in first propelling him to the White House four...
Calling them “callous,” a prominent labor leader denounced House Republicans for their approach to extending unemployment benefits to jobless Americans. The GOP-led House voted Tuesday to extend emergency unemployment insurance beyond the end of the year for Americans, but only after also cutting and restricting the benefits. “It’s bad enough that Republicans blocked bills to create jobs, but now they cut unemployment benefits for people who can’t find work,” says Jim Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters labor union....
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