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(Obama) Labor factoid of the day...
Air Force One and the President's fleet of helicopters are all unionized. That is the maintenance work on these is contracted out to DynCorp, the big government contractor, which in turn has a collective bargaining agreement with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) covering those workers.
