Unions Plan Political Work Despite Strained Relations With Obama

David Moberg, In These Times, March 4, 2010 After President Obama earlier this week supported the mass firing of 93 teachers and other staff at the troubled Central Falls High School in Rhode Island, the AFL-CIO executive council, already meeting in Orlando, fired off an unusually harsh resolution. Labor leaders said they were “appalled” by the “unacceptable” and “disappointing” presidential statements, especially since the local superintendent fired the teachers rather than negotiate over how to continue the recent academic improvement at the working-class community’s school. It was a mini-PATCO moment ... Unions