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Auto Bailout's Death Seen as a Republican Blow at Unions

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger (L) addresses the media as UAW Vice President General Holiefield listens at the UAW Solidarity House in Detroit, Michigan December 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)

Washington - The congressional push to help U.S. automakers was generally cast in terms of protecting the reeling national economy from another body blow -- the collapse of one or more of Detroit's Big Three.

But in killing the stopgap rescue plan worked out by President Bush and congressional Democrats, conservative Republicans -- many from right-to-work states across the South -- struck at an old enemy: organized labor.

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