John Gizzi writes:

Six days after outgoing AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a press breakfast in Washington that the President and Vice President had assured him they would make a major push in Congress for organized labor’s cherished Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the White House confirmed it.
During the regular press briefing at the White House yesterday, I referred to Sweeney’s remarks at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast September 2 and the retiring labor chieftain’s assurance that President Obama would take up the fight for EFCA “once he gets healthcare reform.”
Given that the President has appeared to downplay a push for the measure in Congress, I asked, was Sweeney correct in saying he was committed to a major congressional effort behind EFCA and its controversial “card check” provision (which opponents warn would undo the secret ballot in union elections).
“I would point you to what the President said at a rather boisterous labor rally yesterday,” replied Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, sounding a bit incredulous that I somehow overlooked an address that made headlines nationwide, “where he reiterated his support for that.”
(While Obama did in fact mention his support of EFCA at the close of his Labor Day speech, he actually did not call for an all-out effort behind it. Declaring that “labor is not part of the problem. Labor is part of the solution,” Obama told his audience this is “why I support the Employee Free Choice Act — to level the playing field so it’s easier for employees who want a union to form a union. Because when labor is strong, America is strong. When we all stand together, we all rise together.”).
So does this mean, I pressed Gibbs, “he will get behind it all the way after the health care debate?”
“I’m certainly not going to stand up here and contradict the President less than 24 hours after,” Gibbs told me.