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Tom Donohue is the current head of the US Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.verini.html
Donohue and his senior colleagues downplay the internal disagreements. “You’re never going to have one hundred percent unanimity,” Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s chief lobbyist, told me. “Never. There is inherent tension. There is tension between the oil companies and the gas companies. There is tension between the retailers and the wholesalers. There is tension between what used to be investment banks—we don’t have those anymore—and retail banks. I mean, come on. I laugh every day when someone calls and asks what does the business community think.”
^^^^^^^ CB: The test is how much unity is there in the Chamber of Commerce on issues that are the locus of the conflict between the interests of the classes. How much disunity is there in the C of C over the Employee Free Choice Act ? Ask Josten that. Do any of his clients support the Employee Free Choice Act ? How about do any of them support repeal of Taft-Hartley ? Do any support returning to Welfare As We Knew It ? Reviving the War on Poverty ? Making Full Employment a goal of federal policy again ? Taxing capital gains more stringently ?