the union agenda and to make it easier to organize. martha: you talk about the union leadership we have a piece of sound here from richard tr u.n. cka that you mentioned in your piece that we want to play for everybody and get your comment on that, nina. we are not going to spend precious resources helping candidates that don t stand up and help for us. we ll focus on those people that help us, and we ll have more resources to spend on protecting our friends. martha: remember that richard trumka said he had very good access to the white house. he talked about his frequent conversations with rahm emanuel who is no longer there. what do you make of that that you brought up in your piece. keep in mind the unions spent more than $200 million on behalf of barack obama in 2008. they are not really happy with him again because of this card check issue. the president wants to make sure that they are on his side going into 2012. they have a lot of money, they have tense of millions and hund
nelson that. i think that i think the card check issue, a very controversial, hot button issue for a lot of folks, an important issue for labor, an important issue for business on either side of that, so i think that this nominee has become a bit of a bowl in the ping pong match on that. the reality is i really don t think he can do much once he s in there by administrative martha: but the martha: but the notion that employerso on and employers are vulnerable in so many ways. when you look at the job market and the economy and you look at business, it seems what we should want to do as a nation is make it easier for employers to hire people and to stimulate their business, so you have that going on, then you have this notion that is written about, and some of these very old papers and talked about more recently, that seems to suggest that employers don t know what s good for their employees, and employees don t know what s good for themselves, that they should have to listen