How to keep score on labor issues

For years, members of Congress fighting for balance in American workplaces have been stymied, frustrated, and ignored. They recently watched in horror as the activist Obama administration and the federal bureaucracy put the interests of Big Labor first, rejecting at every turn sound policies that would help actual workers and boost the economy.

They were also dispirited to see other lawmakers support anti-worker, anti-business, anti-growth policies at the behest of union bosses with few repercussions. These pols even looked the other way as former President Barack Obama’s supposedly independent National Labor Relations Board overstepped and overreached, undoing decades of labor precedents as naked political payback.