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Millions of new, "green" jobs can be created, but our economy and American workers will only benefit if quality jobs are maintained here in the United States, CWA President Larry Cohen said at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference of the Blue Green Alliance.

The labor movement was officially welcomed back to the White House to witness the establishment of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, intended to help raise the living standards of the middle class, and President Obama's issuing of executive orders rolling back anti-labor policies of the Bush administration.

Thousands of workers from across the country – some of them fired from their jobs after standing up for their right to form a union -- rallied on Capitol Hill Wednesday and began the process of delivering 1.5 million cards to Congress from supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act.

The House version of the economic recovery plan contains a "Buy American" provision that would require government-financed stimulus projects to use U.S. steel and iron. The Senate version is now being debated.