Clinton would 'consider' union leader for Labor secretary

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/NEWS05/706190415

Clinton would 'consider' union leader for Labor secretary
By BRIAN TUMULTY
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

(Original publication: June 19, 2007)

WASHINGTON — Appointing a labor union leader as secretary of Labor would be "a great idea'' Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday, stopping short of a promise made by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico to appoint a union official if he is elected president.

"I think we should really consider that,'' Clinton responded cautiously under questioning by NBC newsman Chris Matthews at a presidential candidates forum sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the nation's largest public employees union.

Clinton, Richardson, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio each took turns taking questions from Matthews on Iraq and labor issues before a lively audience of union members who will eventually decide on endorsing a candidate prior to next year's Democratic primaries.

All of the candidates support the Employee Free Choice Act, proposed legislation that would require an employer to recognize a union if a majority of workers signed cards asking for representation.

The bill recently passed the House and is expected to come up in the Senate soon, although it doesn't have enough votes to overcome a filibuster. And even if it did, President Bush has vowed to veto it.

Edwards went a step further, saying that as president he who would tell Americans "why unions matter in America" and "how collective bargaining built the middle class in America.''

FULL story at link.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Oh christ.

The wackos would go tilt if they did that. As would the US Chamber of Commerce. Psychiatric hospitalizations would spike out of sight.

[LiberalFighter]

4. At least they wouldn't do as much harm in pyshco wards

[baldguy]

2. How about for the EEOC? Or the FTC? The SEC?

We need oversight & enforcement of CORPORATE CRIMINALS who've had free reign for the last 6 1/2 years

[Peregrine Took]

3. Isn't that what Democratic presidents usually do? What's the big, fercoctah

deal?

[LiberalFighter]

5. Who is the most important member of the NRLB

The board members or the counsel?


Leonard Page was counsel during the Clinton Admin

[ashling]

6. Eisenhower's Labor Sec had been head of thr plumbers union

I can't remember his name

[SHRED]

7. This is the least she could do

Considering her husband signed NAFTA.