The incident was reminiscent of mischief in August, when more than 80,000 employees of Verizon went on strike to demand easier union organizing rules and improved work conditions.
Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
If the government really wanted more people to vote they'd make it easy, for union members and citizens.
When organized labor represented more than a third of American workers, it was easy for unions to send the message that in agitating for their own interests, union members were also helping improve conditions for workers in general.
Thanks to their political power, California unions have, for instance, persuaded lawmakers in much of the state to make it easy for unions to organize the 200,000 home care aides.
The leaders and the governor agreed late Friday on "clarifications," which should make it easier for union workers to approve the complicated contract.
It is the chief force behind the current protest in Mexico city.It is easy for unions to demand more money, and for candidates to promise it.
That would make it far easier for union members to quit paying the part of their dues that goes to politics.
I'm saying that they are paid in the wrong ways — in ways that make life easier on union leaders and elected officials, at least initially, but that eventually hurt both workers and taxpayers.
"That will put an end to the current Tower of Babel in financial reporting, improve competition and transparency and make the free movement of capital much easier," the union's single market commissioner, Frits Bolkestein, above, said.
Mr. Sweeney attacked Mr. Bush's promise to introduce so-called paycheck protection legislation that would make it easier for union members to stop paying that part of their dues that goes to political activities.
