Edwards gets fresh union backing, as president he would oppose strikebreakers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0333093320070904

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters)

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While campaigning in Des Moines on the Labor Day holiday, which honors American workers, he said that as president he would oppose strikebreakers.

"If the union, in order to show its strength and courage has to go out on strike and walk the picket line, when I'm president of the United States ... nobody ... will be able to walk through that picket line and take your job away from you," he said.

Edwards was Democrat John Kerry's vice presidential running mate in 2004.

He credited the labor movement with building the country's middle class and he said it was time for government to take steps to protect union workers.

"We have such important work to do in this country to create opportunity and 'One America' so that everybody actually has a chance in this country -- not just a few rich people, but every single working man and woman," Edwards said.

CLINTON ALSO IN IOWA

Last week, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, with about 720,000 active and retired members, made its first-ever dual endorsement when it backed Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton, her party's front-runner, and Republican Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. Continued...

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[surfermaw]

1. Edwards is from a right to works state

Look at the right to work states they are years behind in everything. The people that live in them like every thing union workers has fought and some died for, but kick unions terribly, some of them don't even realize what the unions have brought them,