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Labor Day and Unions: Making America Work
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis Labor Day, America's unions face a back to school autumn that will redefine their relevance in our river of politics and power. The historic relevance of unions is easy to see: The country got a big boost through the success of union workers like public school teachers who, along with dog-hated mailmen, spend their middle-class paychecks and thus enhance our middle-class economy. Now America's whole middle class is in trouble. Pick your set of statistics or ideological argument from the left or the right to back up what all of us know: If you're stuck in the middle, you're holding ...
Obama: Teamsters' New Ally?
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyThe Teamsters, a union that has been under the government's watchful eye for nearly 20 years due to its past connection with organized crime and the mafia, may have found a friend in Barack Obama.The Wall Street Journal reports today that Obama won the endorsement from the organization of James P. Hoffa's (son of former Teamster's President Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance is still fodder for lore and mystery) in February after the Democratic presidential hopeful said privately he was in favor of ending the strict government oversight of the group to root out corruption. Monitoring of the ...
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