At center of FAA fight: rights of organized labor

SEN.JOHNNY ISAKSON is offering a compromise on the new labor rule. WASHINGTON — At the heart of the bitter dispute over funding the Federal Aviation Administration is an ongoing brawl between Republicans and Democrats over the rights of labor unions, one of several that have flared up during the ...

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