UFCW Weekender 

Following is a brief roundup of important articles and information for your weekend reading:

• A Salute to Labor-- Obama: "your voice can change the world."
  
  President Barack Obama declared Monday that modern benefits such as paid leaves, minimum wage and Social Security "all bear the union label" and appealed to laborers to help him win the health care fight in Congress.  >>> Read More 
• A Labor Day Resolution for Walmart
  
  A recent study by the Department of Labor suggests the number of retail jobs is likely to increase in the coming years. But will those new jobs be good jobs that strengthen communities and allow individuals to provide for their families?  >>> Read More
• Full text of Obama's health care speech
  
  "I understand how difficult this health care debate has been. I know that many in this country are deeply skeptical that government is looking out for them. I understand that the politically safe move would be to kick the can further down the road, to defer reform one more year, or one more election, or one more term. But that is not what this moment calls for. That's not what we came here to do. We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."
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• Harkin states Employee Free Choice vote was post-poned due to Kennedy's illness 
  
  Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Thursday that he had the 60 Senate votes necessary in July to clear the card-check bill through the Senate. But when he called ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) longtime doctor, he was told the lawmaker was too ill to travel to Washington and could not vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). >>> Read More

ACTION OF THE WEEK:
 

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