Will 2010 Be Labor's Turn? ; Tilt in Regulations and a New Card Check Drive

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In the last two election cycles, organized labor sunk hundreds of millions of dollars and incalculable man hours into electing a Democratic Congress and president. It worked, but the priorities of organized labor then took a back seat to other priorities in the first year of the new administration. Unions would have to wait their turn.

Labor has gone along with the Democrats' health care plans, or muted its protests, because it has tied its success so closely to the Democrats. One can argue that this hurts the interests of rank- and-file union workers, and on some specifics this is correct. To help pay for their plan, for instance, Democrats may end up taxing some of the more lavish insurance plans that union negotiators have wrung out of companies.

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Will 2010 Be Labor's Turn? ; Tilt in Regulations and a New Card Check Drive

The gamble is that once Democrats get used to using their supermajority to overturn the status quo, they will be willing to go further on issues unions really care about. Here are six issues that are likely to come...

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