John Brummett thinks a tiny sop to workers — a promise of somewhat stricter federal enforcement of labor laws — might be a workable way to deliver something useful from the failed drive for the Employee Free Choice Act. Spoken like someone who’s never been in a labor organizing fight. First rule: Management gives up NOTHING except under extreme duress. And the bosses are in the driver’s seat now as never before thanks to the likes of Sens. Lincoln and Pryor.

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