>Fine, so when are they going to vote for some *pro*labor legislation?
>
>2002 Supported Homeland Security law with union protection of government
>workers. Bill filibustered by GOP.
>
>2001 Dems overwhelmingly voted to sustain Clinton's ergonomics standards,
>but lost to vote by GOP. See http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll033.xml
>
>1994 Cesar Chavez Act to ban replacement workers. Filibustered by GOP.
>
>1978 Omnibus labor law reform bill overwhelmingly supported by Dems;
>filibustered by GOP.
>
>1974 Expanded NLRA to cover health care workers, largely because wildcat
>strikes were spreading at exempt hospitals, so even the GOP supported
>reform to include the workers in the NLRA.
>
>1965-66 Vote on major labor law reform, including repeal of "right to work
>legislation. Filibustered by GOP. [Interesting story on that vote was that
>minority leader Dirksen offered to drop the filibuster if labor agreed not
>to oppose a constitutional amendment overturning the "one person, one vote"
>decisions for state legislatures. Labor leaders refused the deal; George
>Meany to his credit said, "As badly as I want 14(b) repealed, I do not want
>it that badly. And the Senate Minority Leader and all his anti-labor
>stooges can filibuster until hell freezes over before I will agree to sell
>the people short for that kind of a deal."]
That's 6 examples over 37 years, with gaps of 8, 4, 16, and 7 years!!!! They controlled both houses of Congress for a good bit of that period. Surely you and they can do better than that.
Doug