Daley, Obama at odds over picket line

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The Obama administration is boycotting a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Providence, R.I., this weekend to avoid crossing picket lines and taking sides in a decade-long labor dispute between the local mayor and firefighters union.

But Mayor Daley apparently has no such qualms, in part because he's been in the same boat as Providence Mayor David Cicilline.


Not only is Daley planning to cross a picket line to attend the mayor's meeting, he's sent a message to the White House that it's setting a "very bad precedent" by directing Vice President Joe Biden and more than 100 federal officials to stay away. Biden was supposed to be the keynote speaker.

Obama is in hock to the coercive labor movement.