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As Unions Count Their Losses, Labor Leader Puts Hopes in Obama

By Ben Weyl 6/4/07

At the close of the Iowa legislative session about a month ago, perhaps no constituency felt more shafted than organized Labor. Labor had raised a lot of money for Democratic candidates with the promise that a Fair Share bill would be passed, which would have allowed public employee unions to charge fees for services given [...]

Kevin McCarthy, Dawn Pettengill, and Fair Share

By Ben Weyl 5/2/07

As the Iowa legislative session came to a close early Sunday, House Democrats marveled that they had passed all but one of the items on their legislative agenda. The next day, they learned that they were short one more thing: a caucus member. The two issues were not unrelated.
On Monday, Rep. Dawn Pettengill, a Democrat [...]

No time to celebrate on this May Day

By Ben Weyl 4/30/07

[Commentary] Unions: they're the folks that brought you the weekend. And today, May Day, we should be celebrating them. Unfortunately on this day of solidarity with working people everywhere, it seems we’ve got a lot more work ahead of us before the party can begin.

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