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Obama: Right to Unionize Must Be In the New Social Compact
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Jan. 12, 2017 | ORGANIZE | The right to unionize must be part of a “new social compact” that reduces income inequality and restores hope, President Barack Obama says. That right was one of several ways to help the nation continue to move forward, Obama told tens of thousands of people gathered in Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center for his farewell address, after eight years in the Oval Office. The Chicago speech is not the first time Obama endorsed the right to unionize, free of employer harassment, intimidation, interference and labor law-breaking. He also said so on the campaign trail while seeking re-election in 2012… He won organized labor’s strong support. But union leaders said, privately and sometimes publicly, that Obama never followed through by pushing the cause, labor’s top legislative goal…. peoplesworld.org
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