With ‘Friends’ Like These
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 31st, 2009 4:49 am by HL
With ‘Friends’ Like These
WASHINGTON — No cable television rants. No congressional hearing staged to publicly whip those responsible for so transparent a betrayal. Not a pitchfork in sight. You would be hard-pressed to know that American workers suffered a cruel defeat last week when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — the lone Republican to have once supported a measure that would make it easier for workers to form unions and more likely that employers would negotiate in good faith — effectively killed the effort for this year.
