Obama's New Chief of Staff Forced FT Faculty at NYU To Cross Adjunct Union Picket Lines

President Barack Obama may have crossed labor unions yet again this week when he named former budget director Jack Lew to be his fourth chief of staff in just three years. News broke last week that Obama had deployed the Coast Guard to protect grain ships from longshoremen union members and occupiers in Washington State, but now a more politically perilous anti-union revelation is surfacing: his new chief of staff has led at least one effort to bust a labor union. And Lew succeeded in destroying it. Lew (left, with Obama) worked for President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, first as an assistant to the president […]