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Obama's Labor Day Report Card | Bill Bumpus

Obama's Labor Day Report Card

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By DAVID MACARAY

This
being Labor Day and all, it might be appropriate to assess—from the
express vantage point of organized labor—the job President Obama has
done in his eight and a half months in office.

Our
appraisal should be “realistic” rather than doctrinaire.  Which means
we ignore the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, RNC (Republican National
Committee), and Wall Street Journal, all of whom have accused Obama of
being “dangerously pro-labor,” as well as those hope-to-die radicals on
the other side who think Obama has sold out the Movement.

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