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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on November 12, 2009, 10:12:29 AM

Title: Obama's Union Drive Stumbles in N.H.
Post by: bijou on November 12, 2009, 10:12:29 AM
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President Obama's moves to boost the labor movement suffered a setback this week, when the administration was forced to cancel the first federal construction contract in more than a decade requiring union representation of workers.

The Department of Labor, citing a "need to evaluate the issues" surrounding the union-friendly bidding process, pulled the plug on the competition for a $35 million contract to build a 160,000-square-foot Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., after contractors formally challenged the union mandate.

The requirement, known as a "project labor agreement" or PLA, was adopted as one in a series of policy changes by Mr. Obama to strengthen the labor movement, though he has not delivered on unions' top legislative priority, the so-called "card-check" bill that would make it easier to organize workplaces.  ...
link (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_union_drive/2009/11/12/285248.html)

That whole hopey changey thing is just not taking off.
Title: Re: Obama's Union Drive Stumbles in N.H.
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 12, 2009, 10:35:31 AM
link (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_union_drive/2009/11/12/285248.html)

That whole hopey changey thing is just not taking off.
Stupid laws. We'll have to do something about those.[/czar]