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Why Labor's Rank and File Won't Campaign for Obama

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5) Obama was complicit as Democratic governors attacked the

wages and benefits of public sector union workers across the United

States, rather than raising taxes on the wealthy to handle state

deficits. The continuing attack on public sector unions aims at the

heart of the labor movement. 

6) Obama's national deficit reduction plan threatens to cut additional

hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare and reduce Social

Security benefits.

7) Obama's badly named Race-to-the-Top education program is a

direct attack on public education and unionized teachers, since it

rewards states for creating privately administered and non-union

charter schools, while attacking the seniority of union teachers in

publicly administered schools through new "teacher evaluation"

schemes.

8) Obama pushed to pass the pro-corporate South Korea, Colombia,

and Panama free-trade deals.

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Shamus Cooke is a social service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org)
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