Auto Bailout'S Death Seen As A Republican Blow At Unions
Submitted by richardabc on December 13, 2008
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Auto Bailout'S Death Seen As A Republican Blow At Unions
Reporting from Washington -- The congressional push to help U.S. automakers was generally cast in terms of protecting the reeling national economy from another body blow -- the collapse of one or more of Detroit's Big Three.
But in killing the stopgap rescue plan worked out by President Bush and congressional Democrats, conservative Republicans -- many from right-to-work states across the South -- struck at an old enemy: organized labor.
"If the [United Auto Workers], which is perceived as one of the strongest unions in the country, can be put under control, that may send a message across the whole country," said Michigan State University professor Richard...
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