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Legislation, labor courts and labor inspections are other forces for change.

After years of blocking fast-track trade legislation, labor leaders are worried by plans to hold a House vote on fast track this Thursday.

With conservatives voting as a coalition against the legislation, Labor needs the support of the pro-environment Greens party and at least two minority senators.

How influential the memo was is still debated, but, over the years, the Chamber became the organization Powell wanted it to be, becoming more ideologically cohesive and playing a key role in blocking consumer-protection legislation, labor-law reform, and financial regulation.

In this vein, Mr. Gephardt underscored his own decision to co-sponsor a bill to expand the number of work visas for immigrants with high-technology skills, legislation the labor unions oppose and Mr. Gephardt voted against last time around.

In addition, many Congressional Republicans are eager to enact legislation that labor had relied on President Clinton to stave off, like a measure that would make it harder for workers to receive time-and-a-half pay for overtime.

Republican lawmakers said the electorate favored some of the law's provisions — like performance-based compensation, and employees' paying more toward health care and pension plans — and that while there was no immediate plan for new legislation, trimming labor costs was still pressing.

But of course the CBO does not have a mandate to evaluate the impact of the legislation on labor supply.

The governor signed legislation giving labor representatives an extra recruiting opportunity in California: They're now guaranteed time to meet with new home care workers during state-mandated orientation sessions.

Maneuvering quietly behind each anti-wind-farm maneuver, despite his often green legislation and his labor backers' support of the energy project, is the senior senator from Massachusetts, who is accused of bogging down the wind farm in Congress, where today, having been approved by Massachusetts, Cape Wind is going through its last regulatory review hurdles.

Decades of labor legislation and reforms followed.