From today's Situation Room on CNN:

OBAMA: The problem is, we have had the most anti-administration -- anti-union administration in memory under George Bush, although a lot of the problems started before Bush, you know, with the PATCO strike and dating back to the 1980s.

So, what we have to do is figure out how can we strengthen unions and thereby give workers a little more leverage. So, there are a couple -- there are a couple things that I think we can do. Number one, I think that we should pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: That will make it easier for unions to organize, make it harder for companies to block unionization.

Number two, it's not the Department of Management. It's the Department of Labor, which means that we need to have people in the Department of Labor who believe in labor standards, who are going to enforce labor standards, who are -- we need somebody on the National Labor Relations Board that will rule when -- in favor of unions, when management is not negotiating in good faith and when they're engaging in unfair labor practices.

You know, what unions are looking for, they're not looking to drive employers away. And, in this current climate, where jobs can be moved overseas all the time, you know, workers understand that, if they're doing something that's bad for the company, that, ultimately, that could mean their jobs.

So, I think most unions are very responsible, in terms of wanting to see their employers succeed. But what they do expect is that, if a company's making billions of dollars of profits, that they will share some of those profits with the workers that made that wealth possible. That is a basic principle of American life.