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Last updated: January 23, 2012 3:06 p.m.

Unions hit Daniels on flip-flop

Niki Kelly

The AFL-CIO is using Gov. Mitch Daniels' turn in the spotlight tomorrow night to highlight his about-face on the right-to-work bill.

The governor is scheduled to give the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address.

So the AFL-CIO will run a 30-second ad highlighting remarks Daniels made in 2006 at a Teamsters event stating his opposition to changing Indiana's labor laws. The ad will air surrounding the governor's response on broadcast networks in Indiana and nationally on CNN and MSNBC.

It plays video from the 2006 event in which Daniels says "I have said over and over, I'll say it again tonight. I'm a supporter of the labor laws we have in the state of Indiana. I'm not interested in changing any of them. Not the prevailing wage and certainly not a right-to-work law."

A narrator in the ad rewinds the quote several times, saying "Call Gov. Daniels. Ask him why he no longer supports working people."

The Indiana State AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) is a federation of 800 local unions across the state belonging to 50 International Unions. In total, the Indiana State AFL-CIO represents more than 300,000 working Hoosiers.

To reach Niki Kelly email her at nkelly@jg.net or follow her on Twitter @nkellyatJG.

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