Obama and the Smaller Unions

This is an interesting piece about how the smaller unions feel ignored by the Obama Administration. It’s pretty inside baseball and exposes the fragile egos of many labor leaders. One can dismiss some of these complaints as sour grapes about irrelevancy, except that it shows a) the complex and not particularly good relationship the administration has with organized labor outside of the largest unions and b) the extent to which labor really is nothing more than one of many interest groups within the Democratic Party today, and not all that important of one at that.