- In an editorial this morning about Congressional pork, The Wall Street Journal notes “$1.5 million for the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute and $2.2 million for the AFL-CIO Appalachian Council”
- Colombian officials say they’re doing all they can to meet the stated complaints of the AFL-CIO, which is blocking a crucial trade pact
- Sen. Barak Obama promised Iowa United Auto Workers members that if elected president (by secret ballot) he will deny secret ballots to working Americans by passing the Employee Free Choice Act
- Calling it an “attack” on Nogales public employees, the Arizona AFL-CIO is reportedly complaining that a city vote took “away the rights of city employees to have their union dues deducted from their paycheck” — ahh, that time-honored right to have money directly taken from your paycheck and sent to union bosses (makes us weepy just thinking about it)
- The Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk says unions are turning to
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Posted on Nov 14, 2007 by Bret Jacobson