How Obama Bought Labor's Health Care Vote

You don't think they gave it up for free, did you?

"In Obama labor board appointee, unions see hope for growth; Political impasse has stalled panel" by Holly Rosenkrantz, Bloomberg News | March 30, 2010

WASHINGTON — The appointments “signal a long-overdue shift whereby workers, and not just bosses, will receive equal consideration in crucial matters such as labor disputes and elections,’’ Randi Weingarten, president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement....

Oh, a "public servant" union.

Republicans and business leaders decried the appointment.

“The business community should be on red alert for radical changes that could significantly impair the ability of America’s job creators to compete,’’ Randel Johnson, vice president of labor issues at the Washington-based Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business group, said Saturday in a statement....

And where are they creating jobs, exactly?

China?

India?

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Also see: Labor's Empty Threat

Yes, I really don't listen to impotent, sold-out labor much anymore.

I think the support of the casinos here was the last straw.