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Labor To Push Obama Agenda

November 16, 2012

Leaders of organized labor groups say they are onboard with President Obama’s plan to keep the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. Labor leaders met with the President earlier this week. One of the nation’s foremost labor analysts – the University of California-Berkeley’s Harley Shaiken – tells WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter that unions helped the President be re-elected…and have a significant role to play in pushing his agenda forward...