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Biden to Executive Council: We Need A Middle Class

By James Parks

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council who are meeting in Orlando March 1-3.

In his second visit to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 13 months, Vice President Joe Biden outlined plans to shore up America's faltering middle class with jobs, tax policy and workers' rights protections. Biden also said the Obama administration intends to work to make the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) more worker friendly, even though two nominees are being held up by Senate Republicans. Biden said:

We haven't gotten done yet what we're going to do with the NLRB, but we're going to get it done.

Introducing Biden, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka noted the report released last week by the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families, which Biden chairs. The report listed several recommendations resulting from a year-long review of ways to assist middle-class workers and families.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).