Even as the Bush administration is erasing reforms--like ergonomics regulations aimed at preventing workplace injuries--it has desperately claimed to be moderate on labor issues. "The president is restoring the balance and the middle ground," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer recently intoned. Such rhetoric will continue [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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