This is a lengthy article.

So the three things to look for are:

Union-friendly stimulus

Union-friendly health-care reform

And

Card-check legislation

These three goals have one thing in common: All are meant to raise the percentage of workers who belong to a union. State by state, unions are ensuring that the only employers eligible for stimulus money are those with union workforces. On health care, the Democrats' bill is designed to shift a mind-boggling amount of money into the health-care sector while increasing the government's administrative control over it and anyone who believes the Democrats' rhetoric about cutting costs is encouraged to look at what Dennis Rivera accomplished in New York. Meanwhile, card-check legislation would throw open the doors of private businesses to union organizers and tie their hands when they try to resist.

This is good for unions, but it's even better for liberals. The past three decades have seen unions embrace left-wing positions on everything from affirmative action to gay marriage to the war in Iraq. (Times have changed: Former AFL-CIO president George Meany refused to support George McGovern because McGovern opposed the war in Vietnam.) The bigger unions grow, the more power they have, as Andrew Stern will tell anyone who will listen. Stern's obsession with size has embroiled the labor movement in some of the nastiest fights it has ever seen. Old-school union guys like Sal Roselli, a former Stern lieutenant whose National Union of Healthcare Workers split from SEIU earlier this year in a bitter divorce, told Bradford Plumer that "Stern's drive for growth at all costs" had caused him to ignore what was in the best interest of his members. But Andrew Stern was a liberal before he was a union organizer, just as Obama was a liberal before he was a community organizer. Unions may have existed to serve workers' interests at one time. These days, they exist to serve liberalism.

"The most important thing to note about what SEIU is doing is that it's really become a lobbying arm for the president," Berg says. "Much like Organizing for America [the community-organizing group run by the Democratic National Committee], they are trying to drive bodies nationwide to lobby their congressmen and senators to try to implement the president's agenda." Seen in that light, it is entirely unsurprising that Stern's name should be the one that appears most frequently in White House visitor logs. Obama and Stern are working together to make America a more liberal place, and they want you to join them.

Whoopty freakin' do!

"Pleasure of the President" is how I think it used to go (correct me if I am quoting your pre November 08 rhetoric wrong)

OMG someone is smart enough to actually double the membership in a union and thereby help lift out of poverty thousands of workers. I just hope he continues to succeed and that someday unions will be a much bigger force in politics and America.

So you find nothing wrong with an exception to the health care taxation to exclude collective bargaining policies to be taxed??

Card check is thuggery plain and simple.

And how does stimulus for 7.5% of workers help the 17.5% unemployed/underemployed/
stopped looking?

"Card check is thuggery plain and simple"

The current law allows for Corporations to delay a vote for years and years. Corporate thuggery, plain and simple.

"how does stimulus for 7.5% of workers help the 17.5%"

The same way a small deposit in a bank allows for greater economic expansion than just the amount of the balance.

A small deposit at what cost? 800 billion dollars!

I guess you are ok if the unions are excluded from HC policy taxes?