A new business-backed group is mounting a highly visible attack against organized labor, just as unions are trying to pick themselves up after suffering a schism and years of decline. The group, the Center for Union Facts, ran full-page advertisements in national newspapers yesterday and started a Web site asserting that many unions are corrupt and have hurt airlines, steel makers and automakers.
See "Group Starts Anti-Union Campaign", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, February 13, 2006