Could Obama pull a Johnson this late in the game? If he knows he is going to lose

[joshcryer]

87. Labor was certainly killed by the NLRB paving the way for Taft–Hartley.

This is uncontroversial, and no, I mean precisely what I said. FDR was not a friend of labor.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445#axzz1xJox46w1

It was bad enough that the NLRB effectively made wildcat strikes irrelevant.

The reality is that if we did have another Great Depression and we did have another FDR come along, they would do the same fucking shit FDR did and neuter labor even more than it has already bee done.