Union seeks Republicans; forget the Teamsters. It's those new-age organizing unions that are going post-partisan.

I. LABOR DAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

If you closed your eyes at this year's New York City Labor Day rally, you might have thought you'd been transported to some Hibernian rite at the turn of the last century, back when organized labor spoke with a brogue. The city's locals had assembled in Battery Park for a mix of candidates' speeches and tributes to the union members who had died a few blocks north at the World Trade Center nearly one year earlier. The bagpipe band of Electrical Workers Local 3 kicked things off with an all-George M. Cohan overture--"Give My Regards to ...

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