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President Obama's executive orders on labor/management
President Obama brought labor leaders to the White House again today, following yesterday's signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Today's occasion was the issuing of three executive orders sought by organized labor, as described by CQ Politics: One...
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corner.nationalreview.com — WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama plans Friday to reverse an executive order allowing unionized companies to post... signs alerting employees that they are allowed to leave unions. Critics of the order said that while unionized shops were ... (more) More Orders
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Obama pays his union dues, first installment
Power Line — ... The orders have been posted here by Carter Wood at the Manhattan Institute's PointofLaw.com site. Wood's Saturday morning update notes: ...

Annals of transparency
Overlawyered — Good sleuthing by Carter at Point of Law and ShopFloor: President Obama the other day issued a much-noted new executive order expanding the legal powers of labor unions. When you check the metadata on the PDF, who do you think turns up as the document’s original author? Tags: labor unions Related posts Welcome National Journal readers (0) United Farm Workers’ libel-suit threats (1) Thomas Geoghegan runs for Congress (0) New at City Journal: “Windows on ...

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