AFL-CIO Threatens Obama's Re-Election Over Jobs

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AFL-CIO Threatens Obama's Re-Election Over Jobs
By Paul Bedard
Posted: August 25, 2011

The AFL-CIO, worried that President Obama's long-awaited September jobs announcement will be inadequate, is threatening to boycott the Democratic National Convention and maybe the 2012 elections unless bold action is taken to ease unemployment.

"If they don't have a jobs program I think we'd be better to use our money doing other things," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

The leader of the nation's largest union, who regularly visits the White House to talk with Obama, sounded a warning today that he is worried that the president will simply propose "nibbly" things to spark some job creation instead of laying out a bold plan and promising to challenge Republicans in Congress to pass it.

"People are frustrated and the more jobs aren't created, the more they're gonna get frustrated with everybody," he said in a Christian Science Monitor newsmaker roundtable breakfast.

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Trumka is probably right. I have a feeling that Obama's jobs proposal will not be bold. Chances are that it will be underwhelming, inadequate and unable to solve our structural unemployment crisis.

Call it a hunch.