Union wants personal attention from Dems
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A top union leader says it's time for Democratic presidential candidates to get up close and personal with union members. In 2004, Democratic presidential hopefuls seeking the endorsement of the nation's fastest growing labor union faced the "hang test" &#151; before delivering their stump speeches, they had to hang out with 25 union members for an hour to show how well they could connect with real people.
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Three House Democrats are urging colleagues to revoke key parts of new personnel rules that would curb union rights at the Defense Department, contending the rules are a "bad deal" for Defense civil service employees.
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Despite racking up almost all of the endorsements from organized labor, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards came in behind Barack Obama Â the only Democratic front-runner with no national union support Â in the Iowa caucuses. That left at least one union looking for a new candidate Friday.
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White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton met privately Monday with the board of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, a 1.3 million-member labor group whose support will be critical to any Democratic candidate.
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Democrats have for weeks been privately wringing their hands over whether to accept an automatic 2.5 percent pay increase, fretting that the raise may appear inconsistent with their campaign promises.
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Senate and House Democrats attacked the Republican-led National Labor Relations Board at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, saying its recent decisions had favored employers over workers.
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With Howard Dean rapidly gaining momentum in his bid to become national Democratic Party chairman, the spotlight is turning toward organized labor.
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Union officials tell The Associated Press Sen. Barack Obama is likely to be endorsed by the Service Employees International Union on Friday.
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Democrats rewarded organized labor Thursday for helping them retake control of Congress, approving a House bill that would make it easier to start unions against companies' wishes
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The four Democratic senators who are seeking their partyÃ¢ÂÂs 2008 presidential nomination have been spending much of their time on the national campaign trail. But all were on Capitol Hill Tuesday to support a bill that was very important to organized labor Ã¢ÂÂ a key ally of the Democratic Party, and a constituency that will be a major influence in the upcoming primaries and caucuses.
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Campaign aides for the leading Democratic presidential candidates have been working together on how to keep their bosses apart &#151; at least for a while.
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The civil service system got a little oversight from Congress yesterday, signaling that federal-employee issues may receive more attention as Democrats wrangle with the White House over budget and policy priorities.
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Leading Democrats have urged John Kerry's aides to concentrate on challenging President Bush on domestic issues.
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The level of interest, if it is matched by turnout at the polls on Tuesday, could make the results more important for Democrats than they had assumed.
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Caucusing on the Strip? The very idea may inspire jokes. But for the Democrats, the state is presenting a serious test
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Democrats escalated attacks on the National Labor Relations Board at a congressional hearing yesterday, accusing the panel's Republican majority of turning the nation's labor laws "inside out" by making it harder for workers to form unions.
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Conservative Democrats in the House are challenging their own party to do more to balance the federal budget and restrain government spending, highlighting an ideological division among Democrats that could play a big role in the party's 2008 presidential campaign.