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Forget Emissions, This Is a Fight Over Labor

By | 12.12.08 | 10:49 am

Well, I guess we saw this coming.

Senate Republicans last night killed efforts to grant Detroit’s automakers a $14 billion lifeline to prevent bankruptcies after compromise negotiations broke down over a provision to cut workers’ wages.

Very generally, Republicans wanted the Big Three’s union workers to cut their salary and More…