A few months ago I told you about the Democrats’ attempt to cut the budget of the Office of Labor Management Standards, the federal government’s union watchdog. After recouping more than $100 million for American workers during the first six years of the Bush Administration, the office came under attack from union bigwigs this year.

Unions were as responsible as just about anyone for the shift in power on Capitol Hill, filling the Democrats’ campaign coffers with cash in 2006. Now they’re using their power as a way to undo the good work of the one government office that protects dues-paying union workers.

The mammoth $555-billion omnibus spending bill, which won approval in Congress last week, cuts the office’s budget by nearly $3 million, but it doesn’t do all the damage Big Labor had hoped for. You can read this week’s Townhall column to find out what I mean.