Havent they done enough to destroy american business?

[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

[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!!

[ArlJim78]

what they're thinking is that they have to ram through the entire agenda as fast as possible while they have the political capital. there is little concern at all if its good for the country, that isn't what is important to this bunch right now. its a domestic shock and awe campaign.
the plan is to do exactly what Obama said he would do all along, to radically and fundamentally change America and he's using the financial crisis for cover to get the job done.
the temporary beneficiaries are unions, those on the receiving end of the massive and unsustainable largess, and those who desire to make-over America into something completely different.
I say temporary because all of us will end up losers at the end of the day.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Bush sucked.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

what they're thinking is that they have to ram through the entire agenda as fast as possible while they have the political capital. there is little concern at all if its good for the country, that isn't what is important to this bunch right now. its a domestic shock and awe campaign.
the plan is to do exactly what Obama said he would do all along, to radically and fundamentally change America and he's using the financial crisis for cover to get the job done.
the temporary beneficiaries are unions, those on the receiving end of the massive and unsustainable largess, and those who desire to make-over America into something completely different.
I say temporary because all of us will end up losers at the end of the day.

agree

[dellinger63]

The big 3 auto makers need to greatly reduce their pension and benefit liabilities to former and retired employees and get out of their Union contracts. Easiest way for that to happen would be to allow them to go bankrupt not fund them. Of course that will never happen or at least not under Obama.

[ArlJim78]

Bush sucked, yet we can already look back on those 8 years as "the good old days".

[phystech]

Chuck, you have to remember - it's not about the people, it's about the power!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Bush sucked, yet we can already look back on those 8 years as "the good old days".

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Bush sucked, yet we can already look back on those 8 years as "the good old days".

This is exactly what I told many of my friends, before the election: "You will miss George Bush". That Mr. O. could do that in 6 weeks surprises me though.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Bush sucked, yet we can already look back on those 8 years as "the good old days".

Quote of the day. It's like you lent Timm your login.