Unionization: Vice President Joe Biden tells a labor group that expanding the middle class means a resurgence of unions. But the free choice of middle-class workers is why unions have declined.

Biden may be known for his gaffes, but he was music to the audience’s ears when he appeared before the powerful American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on Tuesday.

The vice president was touting the card-check legislation that is Big Labor’s top political priority this year, but which would profoundly violate workers’ rights by abolishing the requirement of a federally supervised secret ballot to determine union membership.

“You’ve got to climb up a hill with so many roadblocks on the way to organize that it’s just out of whack,” Biden complained, calling for measures that would “level the playing field.”

But it’s the union bosses, not the workers, who would win the game…

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