Fat Bennies Are "Civil Rights"--Like Voting. Right.

This comes under "I told you so."

Fresh from defeat in Wisconsin, union leaders are planning a new campaign not just to head off future challenges to their collective bargaining powers but also to make the case that organized labor’s benefits and prerogatives — wages, health care, and pensions that are more generous than those of comparable workers in the private sector — are the moral equivalent of rights won by black Americans during the civil rights movement.

Mentioned here last week.

HT: Zippers