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For The Record

Posted 2/23/15

Those who have pondered over the years why the New York Times’s usually liberal editorial policy tends to turn decidedly illiberal when it comes to unions have generally come to the conclusion that it’s because the paper’s executives have to deal with unions of their own and don’t tend to be magnanimous in those encounters.

Maybe it’s something in the air at the lair of the Old Gray Lady of journalism, but Nicholas Kristof, as progressive as any columnist at the Times, Feb. 19 wrestled with the subject of organized labor in a piece that began, “Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions.”

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