President Obama promised in 2007 to join a picket line with workers if their collective bargaining rights were ever threatened.
Amid clamor by a House liberal leader for the president to visit Wisconsin, the site of a massive battle over legislation limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers, the White House said Thursday that Obama had no plans to visit the state.
But the president said on the campaign trail that in a similar circumstance, he'd be on the ground.
"Understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain, when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you, as president of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that someone's standing in their corner," he said at a rally in Spartansburg, S.C., in November of 2007.
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3 comments:
just goes to show what some of you elected. not only is his leadership worthless , also his common sense
There is a difference between being a candidate and being a legisative leader. Opinions and bravado are one thing when you do not have to do anything other than talk. The President needs to updhold and defend the laws of the land, whether he believes in them or not.
I think it is a great statement from a good if not a great leader. Protecting the rights of the common masses is an onus of all leaders, which they can't disown when they come to power.
The form of collective bargaining has changed a lot. It is now shaped by social media. Social media, which is now a reality shapes collective intelligence and propels us into collective action.
Leaders who defy this power fall like nine pins as we see the story of the middle east unfold.
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