Hey, Pro!
Here is your guy Lieberman staking out YET ANOTHER position that you can agree with him on!
Here, he comes out strongly for the UNIONIZATION of the T.S.A. screeners. (Same position he supported in previous legislation.)
Now you have an opportunity to exhibit your knee-jerk support for whatever the good Senator says, yet AGAIN. LOL!
February 28, 2007
Call to Expand Union Rights Could Derail Antiterror Bill
By ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Democrats in Congress are pushing to extend union protection to 43,000 federal airport security workers, reviving a debate that stalled the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and could now derail broad antiterrorism legislation.
The proposal has provoked opposition from Senate Republicans and the Bush administration. It is the latest in a series of labor-related fights in Washington as Democrats try to use their new majority to push long-delayed proposals that benefit rank-and-file workers, like increasing the minimum wage.
White House officials made clear on Tuesday that President Bush was prepared to veto a bill that enacted recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission if the provision granting Transportation Security Administration workers collective bargaining rights was not removed....
...“There’s no good reason to deny these rights to these people,” Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said Tuesday, as the Senate took up the matter....
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