Obama: If Tom Brady needs a union, Americans do too
Source: CBS News
By REBECCA KAPLAN
President Obama invoked New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady in his Labor Day speech Monday to argue that everyone needs unions to protect them in the workplace.
"Even Brady's happy he's got a union! They had his back. So you know if Brady needs a union, we definitely need unions," the president said.
A judge recently lifted a four-game suspension the NFL imposed on Brady in response to a scandal over deflated footballs. The NFL Players Association is the union that fought to overturn the suspension.
Mr. Obama marked the holiday with a speech at the Greater Boston Labor Council Labor Day Breakfast. On the way to the speech, he signed an executive order that will require federal contractors to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave each year. The president said the move will offer paid sick leave to 300,000 people who currently receive no paid leave for an illness, and it will expand the amount of paid sick leave for other workers.
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Chisox08
(1,898 posts)Because it takes an act of Congress to deny them what they want.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)I'm sure they'll have no problem denying us what we want too.
forest444
(5,902 posts)And no Gisele Bündchen.
Things are just tough all over, let me tell you.
riversedge
(70,590 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts).Com ... I know ... and see the pix. I wish he had lost the NFL thing. Trump buddy from way back and proud of it.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)...after shepherding a long list of decisions into law to coincide with the deliberate passing of TPP under everyone's noses.
salib
(2,116 posts)Then it is right back to the old "union bosses", "union thugs", etc., memes right here is good old DU.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)the title implies Brady isn't American.
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