Havent they done enough to destroy american business?

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Labor-union leaders gathered in Florida this week have a lengthy agenda for the Obama administration, including a Labor Department focused on stepped-up enforcement of wage-and-hour and workplace-safety rules.

Vice President Joe Biden and newly appointed Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are scheduled to start outlining President Barack Obama's labor policies during an AFL-CIO executive council meeting this week in Miami. Ms. Solis will join the council again on Tuesday, and Vice President Joe Biden is slated to meet the group Thursday.

"There's a new sheriff in town," Ms. Solis told several hundred union members and others filling pews in a church in a working-class neighborhood of Miami on Monday. But Ms. Solis said labor unions need to do more to rally support for legislation that would make it easier for unions to organize -- a proposal business interests strongly oppose.

Unions have an ambitious legislative agenda, led by their push for a proposed "Employee Free Choice Act" that would make it easier for unions to organize workers.

"The department needs to flip itself over and start looking at the perspective of workers again. It hasn't been working for a long time," said Anna Burger, the International-Secretary-Treasurer for the Service Employees International Union

They've already killed the goose that lays the golden eggs...now they're coming back for the carcass!!