Rahm talking tough on unions

When he's mayor of Chicago and he pushes back against Big Labor, will protesters hold signs of Rahm Emanuel with crosshairs on it?

I doubt it.

But the former White House chief of staff is taking a tough stance on Chicago's public-sector unions. He wants the city's school teachers to work longer days--without a pay increase. And Emanuel is alarmed by the 33 percent absentee rate of Chicago's trash collectors--who are represented by the Laborers' Union.

And like anyone else with an ounce of common sense, Emanuel doesn't like the Teamster work-rule that has drivers haul workers from job site to job site--and once they arrive there--these chauffeurs do nothing. Oh, some of them sleep.

If Wisconsin's Democratic senators have to flee their state again, does this mean they will bypass Illinois?

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