Retaliation

The latest retaliation/anti-labor tactic by Bush is to audit unions. As many labor leaders have indicated, labor wants corruption ferreted out; however, it becomes more than unseemly when Bush is increasing enforcement in auditing unions but decreasing enforcement in other labor related areas. Former Labor Secretary under Clinton Robert Reich said,

he was surprised by the increase now, "because enforcement has been cut in other areas, like occupational safety and minimum wage enforcement."

"Unless there was some real evidence of an increase in union violations," Mr. Reich said, "I would think that other enforcement areas should be getting higher priority."