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Obama Addresses Union Controversy in Manchester, N.H.
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey took the stage in Manchester, N.H., drawing to a close the four-event, three-state, two-day tour together.
Speaking before a crowd of 8,500 people, it was only three minutes into the speech when Barack Obama paid homage to local unions, putting to bed a small controversy brewing in New Hampshire this week.
"This is a great facility, and we should have union workers in here to make sure the stagehands are getting a fair shake," Obama said, explaining that the site of the event, the Verizon Wireless Arena, does not hire union stagehands.
Obama had received some local criticism that he, being pro-union, was holding such a massive event at a location without union stagehands.
Obama’s response was to invite, as his "special guests," 25 stagehands of the IATSE Local 195, a union group within the New Hampshire AFL-CIO, to the event.
The Union Leader newspaper reported Friday that an agreement had been reached between the AFL-CIO and the Obama campaign to prevent a picket line by the group outside the event.
Was the invitation and shout out the actual agreement?
The campaign wouldn’t confirm.
But there was no picketing, no protests, and the event went on without a hitch.
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I think it was only fitting considering the fact that the Union vote will be crucial down the stretch...
Posted by: eNews Reference | Dec 10, 2007 5:11:43 AM
he got a Union to participate in an event where they could not be hired at? They guy must have some skills.
Posted by: Louis | Dec 10, 2007 10:44:03 AM
The ability to quietly get such things swept under the rug sounds positively Clintonesque. Obama and Clinton are two sides of the same sleezy coin, the only difference is that one is too polarizing and arrogant to win in the general election, the other a sure loser because of his timidity and unwillingness to take stands on issues by actually casting his vote.
Posted by: sps91158 | Dec 10, 2007 11:09:43 AM
Obama got union members hired to work an arena which does not allow unionized workers.
Sounds to me like Obama talks the talk AND walks the walk. Talk about having an ability to bring about change!
Posted by: Ron, TX | Dec 10, 2007 2:32:19 PM
Sounds to me, sps91158, that Obama once again was able to find the middle ground and get things done. He'll take the same negotiating and organizational skills with him to the White House.
Posted by: Mark Billingsley | Dec 10, 2007 8:31:18 PM
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