boston.com - 12/17/2008
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After workers staged a sit-in at a window factory in Chicago, the president-elect was asked about it at a news conference. His response was surprising - and refreshing.
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Windows on the Future?
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture —
... of the Walter Reutherled forces of anticommunism have often romanticized the UE and other Old Leftrun unions. No one bothered to deny that the UEs occupation of Republics plant was unlawful. Though federal labor law gives unions and workers many rights, the right to seize an employers premises is not among them. (As a former professor of law, Obama might have taken care to express a wish that both sides in the dispute act legally, butas some on the union side observed with pleasure he said no such thing.) At any rate, the banks speedy capitulation ensured that no ...
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Overlawyered —
... Some in the media, like Boston Globe columnist James Carroll, applauded the illegal action and left-leaning Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson ...
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