Today, in an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, Senator John McCain made clear once again his anti-worker, anti-union outlook. Asked about the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would level the playing field for the 60 million workers who say they would join a union if they could, McCain said he’d veto it “in a New York minute.”
I will do everything in my power to block such legislation. And imagine, Sen. Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pushing the union agenda, it would be very, very, very unfortunate.
Sen. Barack Obama has vowed to sign the Employee Free Choice Act - restoring workers’ freedom to form unions and help put an end to the vicious anti-union campaigns, harassment and intimidation tactics most employers use to deny workers a voice at work.
The question is, just who does McCain think will find that union “agenda” so darn unfortunate? Perhaps it’s the monopolies that fight tooth and nail against workers trying to form unions, or the private insurance industry that reaps hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the nation’s broken health care system, or maybe it’s the corporations that have shipped millions of good U.S. jobs overseas.