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 to defy reality if Bush nominates J. Robert Brame to head the National Labor Relations… return to article
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