"The payback would be Employee Free Choice Act - that would be a vehicle to strengthen and build the American labor movement and the middle class," he said. "It's the condition of the country, it's health care, it's the Employee Free Choice Act, it's some kind of effort made in protection of their pensions. These are big and major items."
-- Gerald W. McEntee, president of one of the nation's largest unions, stating how the labor movement was damaged when the FBI linked a competing union to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's effort to sell Illinois' U.S. Senate seat and it hurts labor's push to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, unions' big legislative priority. Here he clearly states the expected "payback."
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