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...deals, anathema to labor. And some progressives were disappointed that Obama passed over labor activist Mary Beth Maxwell and instead chose Rep. Hilda Solis of California as Secretary of Labor. "Labor has every good reason to be wary since they've been disappointed by Dems before, such as Presidents Clinton and Carter," says Robert Borosage, co-director of the progressive advocacy group Campaign for America's Future. (See Obama's cabinet picks...
...bill is not just good for unions but a boost for the economy as well. "If it becomes easier for working people to form unions and get more bargaining power and therefore higher wages, the economy will be helped," said Robert Reich, a former labor secretary under President Clinton and an adviser to Obama on labor during the campaign. "EFCA will be good for the economy because it will improve bargaining and put more money in the pockets of workers...
Some compromises have been proposed, such as one put forth by William Gould, a former Clinton appointee as head of the National Labor Relations Board. Gould suggested keeping the secret ballot but reducing the extensive delays in holding such elections. "Gould's proposal eliminates the politically most potent argument against the Employee Free Choice Act, that secret-ballot elections supposedly better represent the true preferences of employees than do signed union authorization cards," says Gregory Saltzman, professor of economics and labor management at Albion College in Michigan...
...Blair, Barack Obama no doubt saw someone who was, first and foremost, not involved in the Bush intelligence scandals - namely extraordinary renditions, secret prisons, and torture. And while Blair's brief stint at the CIA during the Clinton Administration didn't turn him into a seasoned intelligence operative, he's at least seen the belly of the whale from the inside. (Read more about Obama's White House...
Despite the hundreds of uncomfortably frank papers in the report compiled by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Clinton was impeached on one count: lying under oath about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Indignation over immoral acts in the Oval Office and the counterargument of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" (as First Lady Hillary Clinton darkly hinted) were all anyone could talk about in 1998. And although there had been rumors of impeachment for months leading up to the vote, no one really thought it would happen. Clinton was acquitted in the Senate, served out his term in office...