After Bruising Debt Battle, Obama Holds Meeting with Unions

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/after_bruising_debt_battle_obama_holds_meeting_with_unions_25256.aspx?SectionID=3

Obama held a closed-door meeting with leaders of the AFL-CIO, the country's main labor union umbrella organization, and was expected to hear complaints for shrinking from his demand to include tax revenues as part of the debt deal.

By Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse

Aug. 2, 2011

Stung by a bitter battle over the U.S. debt, President Barack Obama shifted his focus towards putting Americans back to work Tuesday, holding an "urgent" meeting with unions frustrated over the slow pace of job creation.

Obama held a closed-door meeting with leaders of the AFL-CIO, the country's main labor union umbrella organization, and was expected to hear complaints for shrinking from his demand to include tax revenues as part of the debt deal.

"This morning's meeting with the general board of the AFL-CIO was a conversation about the urgent need to focus on job-creating policies that will propel working people and our economy forward," union spokeswoman Alison Omens said.

"Working people are desperate to hear how we're going to focus on the real economy and the jobs crisis, and President Obama conveyed his own feeling of urgency around dealing with the jobs crisis," she added.

FULL story at link.

[Angry Dragon]

1. The republicans promised jobs when they came into office

the republicans promised jobs when the tax cuts got extended
the republicans promised jobs and a surplus when bush pushed through the tax cuts in the first place

Ask the republicans where the jobs are

[patrice]

2. Tom Holland is talking to Brownbackistan about jobs too.

Holland lost to Brownback in 2010. Today he was talking about a trip to Hoover Dam and asking us if we think America will ever be capable of such work again.

I said poor schools reduce entrepreneurship across the board and at-will employment reduces it even further when people's innovations are taken away and given to people who didn't create them and even to people in foreign countries and the American innovators are laid off.