An article in the latest Bloomberg Business Week begins:
The Obama Administration had a choice: It could send Cabinet secretaries to the June 2009 U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Providence or skip the gathering to please the International Association of Fire Fighters. The mayors lost. The Administration bowed out after the firefighters union’s president, Harold Schaitberger, placed a call to Vice-President Joe Biden’s office to say the union planned to picket the event in support of Local 799’s six-year contract fight with the city.
If you?re surprised, then you haven?t followed this forum?s frequent entries on the administration?s unfortunate ties to unions.
