> Trade unions, which have closely aligned themselves with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other politicians, have secured deals requiring underground construction wor

> Trade unions, which have closely aligned themselves with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other politicians, have secured deals requiring underground construction work to be staffed by as many as four times more laborers than elsewhere in the world, documents show. The Left decries the death of the unions, but it's this kind of nonsense that kept Obama from getting any sort of fiscal stimulus passed in the wake of 2008.