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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 ::
Bushs Labor Buddy The controversy concerns the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and its imperious president, Douglas McCarron. A group of Carpenters' dissidents can't get the Bush Labor Department to agree that a clear reading of labor law would invalidate the Byzantine election rules that Mr. McCarron has put in place to maintain his union control.
A federal circuit court has chastised Labor's rebuff of the dissidents and ordered Secretary Elaine Chao to explain this refusal to challenge the McCarron roadblocks to democracy. But Ms. Chao has apparently decided to follow the 2000 precedent set by her Clinton predecessor, Alexis Herman, and continues to back Mr. McCarron.
That a GOP Administration would side with Big Labor this way is striking enough, but especially so in the case of Mr. McCarron. He's notorious for stomping on union dissent, and he's one of those labor bosses who made out like Tyco in the Ullico scandal. Mr. McCarron has returned nearly $300,000 he gained through the insider knowledge he had of the union-owned insurance company's investment in Global Crossing. (See "Big Labor's Enron," August 20, 2002.)------------------------------------------- posted 8:13 PM :: reference link ::
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