By DAVID MACARAY
"With a
world recession, the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble, and
twenty-five years of unsound, unscrupulous and unregulated financial
policy coming home to roost, organized labor leaders knew they were
going to be in for a bumpy ride. They weren’t wrong. Not only are
labor unions being punished by the recession, in many instances they
are, predictably, being blamed for it."