labor leaders

As Barack Obama stood on that frigid inaugural stage in 2009, labor leaders could envisage the glorious future awaiting them.

Here, at last, was a President determined to help unions rebuild their sagging ranks by supporting a "card check" bill that would change the way unions are allowed to organize workers.

Here was a President who openly criticized fellow Democrat Bill Clinton for signing the North American Free Trade Agreement.

As President Obama convened his "jobs summit" with business and labor leaders there was plenty of news about the conundrum he's facing -- a decline in the service sector and retail sales.

So Bob Moon asked economic experts how we might jump-start the economy.