BUSINESS GROUPS and organized labor have at least one thing in common right now: a frustration that our politics are producing more hot rhetoric than good jobs, even as crucial national needs go unaddressed. But if private industry and labor unions pool their money and their political influence, they can lead the way toward modernizing an aging national infrastructure that dulls America’s competitive edge. In doing so, they would also start building the kind of longer-term economic compact necessary to sustain the high-quality jobs that the nation desperately needs.
Published in the Boston Globe Sept. 5, 2011.
URL: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/09/05/labor_business_can_unite_as_economic_heroes/
