In 2007 Obama Promised Unions That He’d “ Walk On That Picket Line With You As President Of The United States Of America.” “If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself.’ … ‘I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.“ (Sam Hananel “PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Shies Away From Protests,” The Associated Press, 3/12/11)

Obama : “And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States.” (Senator Barack Obama, Remarks In Spartanburg, South Carolina, 11/3/07)

Now The Chicago Teachers Union Is Asking Obama To Make Good On That Promise

The Chicago Teachers Union: “We Call On The President To Walk On That Picket Line And Join Teachers, Students, Parents, And Citizens Who Support Public Education.” ANCHOR: “Overnight protesters with the Chicago teachers tweeted out: ‘we call on the President to walk on that picket line and join teachers, students, parents, and citizens who support public education. Do it for the children – well there has been no response yet from the White House.” ( WFLD Chicago, 9/12/12)