Obama: When Workers Form Unions, ‘Workers Prosper, America Prospers’

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

Yesterday, Obama addressed hundreds of working men and women in New Jersey as part of the AFL-CIO's series of townhall meetings with presidential contenders. AFL-CIO blog:

He said every worker deserves the freedom to form unions without intimidation, bargain in good faith and work in a safe environment. “Those rights are in jeopardy today,” Obama warned. When workers join unions, “not only do workers prosper, America prospers.”

Obama promised to “make the Employee Free Choice Act the law of the land” and to make universal health care coverage a reality.

We can have universal health care by the end of the next president’s first term, by the end of my first term.