Does Obama Support the Employee Free Choice Act?

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3:23 PM Eastern - March 11, 2009
Level the Playing Field with Employee Free Choice Act
By Kate Thomas

Last night, SEIU's Stephen Lerner was on MSNBC's Hardball and had a really great exchange that explains our case for the Employee Free Choice Act.

Lerner delves into the hypocrisy of business groups' new "campaign" of allegedly standing up for workers' rights:

"The Chamber of Commerce...who opposed raising the minimum wage, who opposed health insurance for kids, who opposed almost everything that would help workers--is now saying their interest is to protect the rights of workers. It's silly. They like the status quo...for 30 years wages remained stagnant, while productivity went up, wages went down. The middle class was destroyed. They got million dollar bonuses; they did great. We're just trying to level the playing field."

And here is what Stephen Lerner said in response to Chris Matthews' question about President Obama's support for the legislation: See video.

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