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Trumka: We're Getting Card Check in Obama's Second Term

Anne_1 Wrote: Nov 05, 2012 4:59 PM
skywalker58 Wrote: @ 4:50 PM Send Valerie Jarrett packing. = With a little luck and justice, they won't need to pack anything. We the taxpayers will be funding those cute little black and white striped outfits they'll get to wear while they're doing 50yrs to life in Leavenworth.
cajunlady1947 Wrote: Nov 05, 2012 7:41 PM
Amen to that. Problem is that there are several layers of protection between them and the crime.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is looking forward to some "flexibility" in a second Obama term should the president win tomorrow. Trumka told the Atlantic an Obama re-election will bring back card check, or in other words, the elimination of a secret ballot for union members.

"[...] You'll see it," he says. "That's within the next term." How is that possible, without a Democratic House of Representatives or 60 votes in the Senate? Trumka smiles. His eyes twinkle.

"There's another election between now and then," he says. And the AFL-CIO isn't going anywhere.

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