EDITORIAL: Labor Pains: Defeated bill would have been counterproductive for unions.(Editorial) From: Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY) | Date: July 1, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Paducah Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Jul. 1-- -- Labor unions are victims of their own success. And their own excess.

Union membership is a fraction of what it once was in large part because the unions achieved their goals. Aided and abetted, of course, by the too-frequently sordid episodes in their history.

The Senate last week killed a bill intended to reverse the decline in union membership not by appealing to labor's best legacy but by resorting to its worst, paving the way for a return to it...