Senator Obama, Labor Differ On Upcoming Peru Free Trade Vote - 10/17/07
16th October 2007
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Loading ...While ten local SEIU state chapters have endorsed Presidential hopeful John Edwards this week, the 170,000-member Illinois Service Employees International Union threw their weight behind another Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. However, not everyone is happy with Obama. Sarah Manski reports:
The AFL-CIO and other national labor unions are criticizing what they say is Obama’s backing of Wall Street's push to expand NAFTA into Peru. The Bush Administration and the National Association of Manufactures is welcoming the deal saying that the watered down labor language is unenforceable. Sue Vilbrandt, a labor unionist and Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign member, picketed outside a recent Obama event.