WASHINGTON – Putting another Campaign 2008 stamp on his new administration, President Barack Obama signed executive orders he said should "level the playing field" for labor unions against management.
Obama also used the occasion at the White House ceremony Friday to formally announce a new White House task force on the problems of middle-class Americans, and installed Vice President Joe Biden as its chairman.
In another move favorable to organized labor, the president signed three executive orders that union officials say will undo Bush administration policies that favored employers over workers. The orders Obama signed will:
_Require federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.
_Reverse a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.
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