Sioux City Journal: Presidential hopeful Edwards stands with striking Sioux City workers: "...Several hundred people gathered just outside Standard Ready Mix, as Edwards began his five-stop campaign swing through Sioux City, Orange City, Sheldon, Spirit Lake and Spencer. His theme of the day was to ensure that not just the upper class in America thrives and that the middle class doesn't disappear.
Although Standard vice president Mark Jensen drove a truck close to the area and left it running and unveiled a 'Hillary for President' sign, which several attendees said was an attempt to disrupt the event, the mood of the union members was upbeat.
Speaking to a crowd largely adorned in union T-shirts, Edwards said for the middle class 'to survive, one of the critical things we have to do is strengthen and grow the organized labor movement in America. I've walked a bunch a picket lines all over the last several years, and I'm proud to be here with all of you.'
As president, Edwards said he would back banning the hiring of permanent replacements for strikers, support the Employee Free Choice Act to give workers "a real choice in whether to form a union" and toughen penalties for breaking labor laws.
"If you can join the Republican Party by signing your name to a card, every worker in America ought to be able to join a union by doing exactly the same thing -- that's democracy, that's what we believe in," Edwards said to cheers..."
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