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One of the best illustrations of the differences between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain is their stand on the proposed Employee free Choice Act that would give U.S. workers the full right to unionization and the many benefits that entails. Democrat Obama, staunchly pro-union, supports the act, Republiocan McCain, rightly declared an enemy of labor by the AFL-CIO, opposes the act.
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One of the best illustrations of the differences between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain is their stand on the proposed Employee free Choice Act that would give U.S. workers the full right to unionization and the many benefits that entails. Democrat Obama, staunchly pro-union, supports the act, Republiocan McCain, rightly declared an enemy of labor by the AFL-CIO, opposes the act.
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Democrat Barack Obama supports the proposed Employee Free Choice Act. Republican John McCain opposes it. And there you have one of the best possible examples of the basic differences between the presidential candidates ? and one of the best possible reasons for working people to throw their support to Obama.
Passing the Free Choice Act ? currently stalled in the Senate ? would give American workers the unfettered right to the unionization that?s long been denied millions of them , despite unionization?s great importance to the economic health of everyone.
The proposed law would amend the 73-year-old National Labor Relations Act. The law was enacted as a way to encourage unionization and the growth of a substantial middle class. But it has become feeble and so poorly enforced that it?s routinely violated. Which is the main reason that only about 12 percent of American workers are in...
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INTRO: Commentator Dick Meister says working people have a choice between a friend and an enemy in the presidential election.
OUTRO: Dick Meister is a veteran labor journalist.
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