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The trade deals that President Obama has signed have included rights for workers.  Far from being "union busting" President Obama has done more to save unions, including the auto union and the union workers at Boeing then any president in decades.

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The NLRB enforcing labor law.  Hold the presses.

What's significant about Obama's behavior with regard to labor is that, like everything else that a Democratic president should be doing, if he does it at all it's as cover to his stalling and sabotaging.  His appointments are one example - Way too little, way too late, and way too conservative.

Did you know that 2/3rds of GM's labor force is outsourced?  FWIW, it was Bush who authorized the initial loans to GM and Chrysler (about $17.5 billion), and later under Obama, another $6.36 billion.

Then there's EFCA.

Obama's chief advisor on union matters was SEIU's Andy Stern.  The short story is that Stern ran SEIU the way Bush-Cheney (and now Obama) ran the government: Unitary executive.  Unlimited power.

Stern had a rubber-stamped, hand-picked board with members who never went against him.  He ran SEIU like a corporation with him at the top.  That's not democratic -- That's not the way unions ought to be run.

A union really is its members and I think Stern's lost sight of that.  He treated members more like pawns in a chess game.  He appointed cronies to positions as presidents of locals and he got into trouble several times because his personal choices have been indicted as corrupt, stealing hundreds of thousands from the local unions.  And anybody who challenged Stern didn't stay long at SEIU.

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