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Organized Labor Tries To Regroup by Stephen Wells
Organized labor, even more than the Democratic Party, took a punch within the gut with the November a pair of election results.
The end of the Democrats’ total dominance on Capitol Hill means labor has very little chance of obtaining legislation passed before 2013. However with a heretofore loyal ally in the White House, unions can still accomplish several of their goals through government and regulatory action – unless the administration pivots in another direction to arrange for President Obama’s re-election campaign.
The Iowa caucuses are simply fourteen months away, and the first primaries of 2012 can be right behind. In many places, those primaries can not solely verify presidential candidates. They will also select the most important party nominees for one-third of the Senate, and, once once more, for the complete House of Representatives.
Obama has scheduled a news conference nowadays to discuss the drubbing his party took at the polls. The president, who just yesterday said his agenda is "all in danger," probably will try to run a verbal high wire between defending the Democratic record that voters appeared to repudiate, whereas giving to collaborate with the Republicans.(1)
One phrase we can expect the president to avoid, however, is "elections have consequences."(two) This can be what Obama famously told House Republican Whip Eric Cantor when, on his third day in office, the new president dismissed Cantor’s suggestion of little business tax cuts to assist stimulate the economy.
Elections certainly do have consequences. A major consequence of the Democratic takeovers of Congress in 2006 and therefore the White House in 2008 was to give allies of organized labor an almost free hand in setting the Washington agenda. For the foremost half, these allies have delivered impressive results.
Unions did not get the legislation they needed to require employers to acknowledge unions primarily based solely on employee signatures on a "card check," rather than through an election. But they have gotten nearly everything else they sought, from a hike in the minimum wage to huge stimulus spending to a bailout of two huge Detroit-primarily based automakers. Obama’s insistence on letting tax rates rise for higher-income households, while holding the road on taxes for most Americans, reflects organized labor’s priorities.
Labor needed stimulus cash to be directed at saving government jobs and supporting beleaguered industries, particularly housing. For the foremost half, that’s precisely what happened.
Social liberals, on the opposite hand, have created little progress in this period of Democratic control. The current president opposes same-sex marriage, just like his predecessor. His administration continues to defend the military’s "do not raise, don’t tell" ban on gay members. The federal Defense of Marriage Act remains law. The health care overhaul could not win passage this year until anti-abortion Catholic bishops weighed in on its restrictions on federal funding.
There was a definite hierarchy in the Democratic power structure therefore way within the Obama years. Labor has been on high, followed by environmental teams, whose regulatory policies have found favor except when in conflict with labor priorities. Causes favored by social liberals have been at the bottom of the to-do list.
Therefore what happens next?
With a lame-duck session of Congress doubtless to convene around Nov. 15, the obvious issue at hand is that the fight over the Bush-era tax cuts that are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1. Obama will in all probability provide, maybe as early as today, to temporarily extend the cuts for higher-income taxpayers, while making the cuts permanent for many wage-earners. Republicans possibly will only conform to a two-year extension of today’s income tax rates for everyone. This can keep the tax issue alive for the following election cycle.
What regarding the estate tax? It expired this year, however is due to snap back in 2011 to its pre-Bush level of fifty five percent on estates greater than $1 million. A compromise would possibly place it back at its 2009 benchmarks of 45 percent on estates greater than $3.five million. But Republicans may hold out for a 2-year extension of 2010 law, without an estate tax, as well. This could produce a 3-year gap within the tax’s implementation, which – to the good dismay of labor – might easily be enough to sink the tax politically forever.
It can take sixty votes to urge anything through the Senate. Democrats, who are about to determine their numbers slashed, would possibly conceivably try to push through their own tax bill with only a vacant Senate majority using reconciliation procedures. But, given the strength of the Republican tide this year and the quantity of Democrats who hold shaky seats in conservative states that can vote in 2012, I doubt this will happen. Complete gridlock this year can kick the tax issue to the next Congress. There, a bigger Republican bloc will be in a position to force Obama to sign the tax cut of its selecting, lest the complete voters pay a sharply higher bill on the 2011 returns we have a tendency to will file during the election season in 2012.
Labor may build one last strive to induce a card-check bill through this Congress. Smart luck with that. A key vote would belong to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who has opposed card-check legislation in the past. That was a serious reason why organized labor backed a robust challenger in the Democratic primary. Lincoln survived the challenge, however was therefore badly weakened that she stood nearly no likelihood in yesrterday’s balloting. It’s hard to imagine Lincoln changing her position to relinquish labor what it thus badly wants.
Democrats, beginning with Obama, can naturally be tempted to move to the political center to counter the Republican surge. This strategy helped Bill Clinton win re-election in 1996 when a GOP sweep two years earlier. Unions face an unpleasant choice: Settle for a move by Democrats off from labor’s agenda to try to rebuild the party’s legislative strength, or risk splitting the party with a brand new set of professional-labor candidates to run in the 2012 primaries against any heretics.
I expect the unions can swallow hard and give Obama the maneuvering space he desires, if he decides to take a more centrist path. Unions are, ultimately, a minority that seeks disproportionate economic and political power. They represent fewer than one out of every ten non-public sector workers.
Without majorities in both homes of Congress, labor’s influence largely depends on having a devotee in the White House, whether or not President Obama gets a very little less friendly from now on.
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