Page A14 of today's Wall Street Journal documents "Big Labor's Comeback" underway at the Democratic National Convention:

Card check is merely the start. Next on the agenda is a campaign
to repeal "right to work" laws in the 22 U.S. states that have them. Right to
work laws allow employees to decide for themselves whether to join or
financially support a union. Former Michigan Congressman David Bonior told a
union event in Denver on Monday that limiting right to work laws is essential
both to lifting union membership and promoting more Democratic political
victories. He pointed out that John Kerry didn't win a single right to work
state in 2004, while Al Gore won only one -- Iowa -- and only by a few thousand
votes in 2000.

This point is crucial to understanding labor's new Democratic
clout. States with more union households tend to be more Democratic. And groups
like the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO will pour
hundreds of millions of dollars, and endless man hours, into getting Democrats
elected this year. Those resources have simply overwhelmed the 1990s New
Democrat movement that tried to tug the party toward freer trade and
public-sector reform.

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We have long believed that if workers want to form a union, they have every
right to do so. And businesses that get a union often deserve what they get.
What Americans need to know this November is that the Democratic Party wants to
make it that much more difficult for them NOT to join a union.