More clout for unions


December 3, 2012 · 4:46 PM

 

With both their advocate and "bag man" having been re-elected, look for the unions to expand their expectations from President Obama and his proxy NLRB for more rulings (a la Boeing), strikes, and appeals.

Unions' brinkmanship and strikes will now throttle a tottering private enterprise engine that has already been laid low by fiscal irresponsibility and environmental obstructionism. Hostess and Walmart are merely the beginning.

Harvey Gillis, Bellevue

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