The AFL-CIO wants Obama to nationalize the banks:

Labor leaders said the administration appeared to be vacillating on nationalization partly out of fear of Republican attacks that it was adopting socialist policies.

Jeez. Why would the administration fear something like that? Maybe, because Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto listed this as a step toward communism:

Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

TV cameras will not be allowed to cover Biden’s speech to labor bosses in Miami.  I wonder why?  That must be one ritzy banquet hall.

The Tribune-Democrat in Pennsylvania editorializes against EFCA.

The transcript of Obama’s remarks to the AFL-CIO executive council is now available.