The Obama administration is again facing criticism from Big Labor, one of the president's top political supporters, this time for trying to block the American Airlines-US Airways merger.
At least four labor unions have joined in opposition to the Justice Department's Aug. 13 anti-trust suit that essentially argues the proposed, $11 billion merger could reduce the number of flight choices for customers, allow the two airlines to control pricing, and increase fares and fees.
Unions representing American pilots and flight attendants from both airlines were, as expected, the first to criticize the administration and the suit.
But the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trade Department recently joined the fight, putting some added muscle behind opposition to the administration's case.
“It’s going further than just a few unions that really don’t represent a lot of people,” Marc Scribner, a transportation policy expert with Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, told FoxNews.com on Monday.
In just the past several months, unions have criticized the president’s signature health care law as a jobs killer, claiming the law's mandate on employers to provide insurance to full-time workers is forcing them to cut jobs or send people into part-time status. They've also ripped the administration for not approving the Keystone XL pipeline and for a proposal to allow small knives in plane cabins, which representatives for pilots and flight attendants helped defeat.
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