Labor Unions Accuse Obama of Betrayal in Health-Care Rollout

President Barack Obama at a speaking engagement on January 30, 2014 in Waukesha, Wisc.

Labor leaders who have spent months pushing for concessions under the Affordable Care Act signaled last week that the White House’s refusal to help is reducing union support for Democratic candidates in upcoming midterm elections, the Washington Post reports.

Unite Here, one of the first unions to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, and others, complain that the president hasn’t kept his pledge to address the particular needs of union-negotiated insurance plans that cover millions of workers, the Post says. Donald “D.” Taylor is president of Unite Here, the union that represents about 400,000 hotel and restaurant workers and provided important support to Obama by endorsing him just after Hillary Rodham Clinton won the New Hampshire primary in 2008.

Taylor and Terry O’Sullivan, president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, mapped out their concerns last week in a terse letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), saying they are “bitterly disappointed” in the Obama administration.

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