Sure Democrat A.G. Lori Swanson was elected with the support of labor unions in Minnesota in 2006, but will her ignoring the plight of her own staff attorneys with a desire to organize into a union themselves impact labor’s support of Ms. Swanson in the future? We think not. So why should she feel the need to respond to any pressure from big labor on this issue? If the unions would demonstrate some independent thinking, and flex some political muscle, they might actually get their way. If they did that, Ms. Swanson might find herself facing a union backed opponent in the 2010 Democrat primary. Now wouldn’t that be interesting?

Hundreds of e-mails from overseas are pouring into the Minnesota Attorney General’s office to support a staff organizing effort as an international worker rights website features the campaign.The London-based site, www.labourstart.org, has made the organizing among 135 attorneys in the Minnesota Attorney General’s office one of its four current action campaigns. Other current campaigns are on behalf of two jailed unionists in Iran, workers locked out at a Canadian refinery and striking nursing home workers in Britain.

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