There goes Hoffa. (Devil in the Details).(Jim Hoffa Jr.)

SINCE HE FIRST BECAME president, George W. Bush has had two distinct approaches toward America's unions: 1) Divide and conquer, and 2) Smash them into eensy-weensy bits. Bush came to the White House armed with a Texas Republican's hatred of all things union, but what in Texas had merely been an ideological passion (unions in Texas are too small to have temporal consequences) became in Washington a strategic guidepost.

For at the level of national politics, unions mattered. Not only did they advocate such time-honored communist ploys as the minimum wage, they were the Democrats' ...

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