How nice it is to have a pro-labor president:
President-elect Barack Obama put himself on the side of the workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory Sunday:
“When it comes to the situation here in Chicago with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned, I think they are absolutely right,” Obama said Sunday at a news conference announcing his new Veterans Affairs director. “What’s happening to them is reflective of what’s happening across this economy.
I like it.
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