Report: Bush Administration's Labor Department Abuses Labor Union Regulatory Authorities
The Center for American Progress has released a new report entitled, "Beyond Justice: Bush Administration's Labor Department Abuses Labor Union Regulatory Authorities," by Scott Lilly.
In the report's introduction, Lilly points out that in recent years many regulatory agencies have laxly enforced their rules "to the significant financial benefit of certain businesses and at the expense of those whose health and safety those laws were designed to protect." But in the governance of organized labor, "rigorous and in fact pernicious regulatory enforcement was the course chosen by the Bush administration."
Lilly argues that the "underlying purpose, of course, is to undermine the reputation of the labor union movement through a classic political misinformation campaign—all under the supervision of a lifelong partisan political operative whose career has been dedicated to the destruction of his political opponents."
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