At those hearings, the administration argued that T.A.'s are just students learning how to teach -- and are therefore not entitled to collective bargaining.
All the while, a small cadre of influential Democrats stood behind her, helping her craft messages on things like her positions on unions (that they are entitled to collective bargaining on salary issues), and trying to fend off attacks from the progressive community (one in particular thwacked her explicitly for her right-wing contacts).
In a strongly worded ruling, the judge, Lawrence E. Kahn of Federal District Court in Albany, said the furloughs were unconstitutional and would irreparably harm the workers by denying them salaries and raises they were entitled to under collective bargaining agreements.
After being impounded since the April election, the ballots were only counted after the NLRB ruled last week that a subset of NYU graduate assistants are treated by the university as employees and so are entitled to vote for bargaining rights and representation by the UAW.
No one, they say, is entitled to a plea bargain.
Further evidence of misgivings in Washington came last week with an article in The New York Times entitled "America's Dangerous Bargain with Turkey" by Eric S Edelman, former US ambassador to Turkey and under-secretary for defence policy, who is normally regarded as a neo-con of good standing.
Therefore, these assistants "are entitled to organize and bargain with their employer even though they are enrolled as students".
Is Obama now entitled to a grand bargain?
This is not a conversation about more laws or policies, it is a political conversation about the future of Uganda's entitled classes and the elite bargain they need to make.
Rather that attack that accomplishment, Mrs. Clinton should focus her considerable talents on those high-frequency traders who try to take more than they are entitled to under the Clinton era bargain.
