UNIONS LOOK FOR NEW LIFE IN WORLD OF OBAMA

Unions are looking to Barack Obama and rising economic anxiety to reverse organized labor’s long slide. Through three decades of decline, union leaders have been predicting a renaissance that has not come. But labor invested more than $300 million to help elect Mr. Obama and enlarge the Democratic majority in Congress, and it expects both to enact legislation that will make it easier for millions of workers to unionize. continue reading