Today, union officials have drawn up a new political agenda that should give all Americans shivers. It centers around stealing voting rights from employees and rigging federal laws to monkey-wrench business operations. And Americans should be concerned, because organized labor is aggressively pushing to expand increasingly sympathetic majorities in Congress and elect a President in 2008 that is beholden to their cause and willing to implement a number of frightening  provisions.

Labor leaders say they're working for America's employees, but their actions indicate otherwise.

Consider the state of the unions:

    * Union membership is down to 7.4 percent of private sector employees and down to 12 percent overall (government employees are highly unionized, at a rate of 36.2 percent) - that's down from a high of 20.1 percent in 1983
    * Union bosses continue to be criticized for their lavish salaries, even while their membership declines
    * Even after several major unions split from the AFL-CIO to improve their growth, some have found little success

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