Laboring Away at the Institute points out this flagrant piece of hypocrisy from the AFL-CIO blog:

We have learned painfully that in this third century of our republic, we cannot take our right to vote for granted. We have to defend it. There are people in our political system who think that voting is a privilege reserved for those like themselves, that it is fair and right to confuse and intimidate people into not voting.

So Big Labor thinks voting is a privilege and should be free from confusion and intimidation? Hmmm... Except when union organizers unrelentingly pressure or mislead workers into signing "union authorization cards" so that workers are denied access to the less-abusive secret ballot election process. Except when union bosses decide to spend forced dues on radical politics. The list goes on and on...