It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

The San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties, AFL-CIO is the Central Labor Council representing over 50,000 members of 40 unions throughout San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties, located in the heart of the California Central Valley. The mission of the San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties, AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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