Obama is clearly tied to unions, and specifically to the government employee's union. We have reached the point where government workers make on average twice as much money as private sector employees. We are becoming more and more like the socialist societies of Europe, where getting a government job is the highest ambition of most people, and there is structural unemployment at a level of 10%. Both in Europe and in many places in the US the overly generous government jobs are causing governments financial strain and even bankruptcy. Here is a discussion of the issue.