Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterBattle Deepens Over Plan to Ease Union Organizing
Published 12/9/2008 by Michael A. Fletcher at Wash Post In Congress
Business and labor groups are intensifying their battle over a measure that would make it easier to organize unions, offering a preview of what is certain to be one of the earliest and hardest-fought legislative battles in the new Congress.
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