This is the clearest statement yet from Obama that he still plans to move relatively quickly on EFCA, which would make it easier for unions to organize workplaces. (Seating Al Franken, though, is probably a pre-requisite.) Here is what the president told the AFL-CIO executive council last night, which is meeting in Miami. Obama appeared over a live video feed.

And as we confront this crisis and work to provide health care to every American, rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, move toward a clean energy economy, and pass the Employee Free Choice Act, I want you to know that you will always have a seat at the table.

Full statement after the jump.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.