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Bush "administration" appointees to the National Labor Relations Board have reached another not-so-curious decision to erode the rights of working men and women. In the "Kentucky River" case, the Board has determined that charge nurses are management staff and not entitled to union protections. This is the latest in a string of similar determinations, most of which have been overturned by the Supreme Court. Of course, the Court has been loaded now, along with the Board.

In related but less contemporary news, erosion of protections in statute gave rise to the union movement in the first place. Many of my more wise Labor associates insist that the best thing that could happen to organized labor would be the repeal of statutory protections.

Be careful what you wish for Mr. Bush and your political party, and hope that working men and women remain ignorant of your very obvious agenda. Waitresses in tennis shoes may stop voting for tax breaks for millionaires.