President Obama attacked right-to-work laws today while speaking to a union that cheered his administration's attempts to close a Boeing factory in a right-to-work state.On a personal note, blogging will be light today. I have some business in downtown Chicago to tend to. If you know what I often write about, well, you know where I'll be. Smile if you spot me.
"I believe when folks try and take collective bargaining rights away by passing so-called 'right to work' laws that might also be called 'right to work for less,' laws, that’s not about economics, that’s about politics," Obama told the AFL-CIO today. "That's about politics." He then credited the AFL-CIO for creating American prosperity, saying "unions like yours made sure that everybody had a fair shake, everybody had a fair shot."
The definition of "everyone" shared by Obama and the AFL-CIO must not include the people who live in right-to-work states. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka cheered the National Labor Relations Board's attempt to close a Boeing factory in the right-to-work state of South Carolina, arguing that the plant should have built in the union state of Washington.
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