May 112010
 

Does anyone else remember when President Obama was against special interests? Seems like it was just yesterday.

Battle Creek Enquirer News item:

In a major victory for organized labor, unions will have an easier time signing up airline and railroad workers after the Obama administration today changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections.

The change is the most significant so far in a string of White House moves designed to boost unions, which are struggling to reverse years of decline in membership.