Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Next Gauntlet: Reviving the Middle Class

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Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Next Gauntlet: Reviving the Middle Class

Robert L. Borosage: The campaign on EFCA will be fierce. Gaining 60 votes won't be easy. The business community will go all out, claiming that strong unions will ruin America, trample workers' freedoms, drive jobs abroad. But we've tried an economy with weak unions -- and that didn't work out so well. Obama is right to tee this up early even as he struggles to get the economy moving, to get the financial system reorganized, to move on health care and new energy. This is a fight that citizens across the country should join. It will be a critical building block of the new economy that we must construct from the ashes of the old. Click here to read more.