Eric Boehm on Organized Labor vs. Liquor Store Privatization in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) is leading the charge to privatize the state's liquor store system. In opposition stands the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, which counts about 3,000 state liquor store employees among its members. Reporting from Pennsylvania, Eric Boehm looks at how the union is resisting the effort to privatize the state-owned liquor monopoly.
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