So rightwingers are taking great glee in Bill Clinton's taking up the cugel of allegations of "union intimidation" during the Nevada caucuses. See this editorial by Reaganite Lawrence Lindsey to use Clinton to more generally go after pro-labor laws:

Now that Bill Clinton has seen for himself that union leaders can and do intimidate employees over whom to vote for in a party caucus, he might want to think about whether union leaders might do the same things when something even more relevant to them is at stake--such as whether their union can win an organizing battle and begin forcing workers to pay dues.

Of course, the irony is that Nevada showed exactly the opposite, since Hillary actually won in the union strip hotel caucuses, reflecting that members felt quite comfortable publicly voting against their union leadership, as this Politico story outlined:

Sen. Hillary Clinton won seven of the nine at-large caucus sites on the Strip, sites her husband had derided as giving disproportionate influence to the 60,000-strong union...the stresses of a divided union membership carried into caucus rooms Saturday, as Clinton supporters openly taunted Obama supporters, waving noisemakers in the air at one site...No Clinton supporters within the union, however, complained to Sun reporters Saturday of any intimidation.

Rightwingers with ideological blinkers might try to see the Nevada caucus as an example of union intimidation, but for anyone with their eyes open, it actually put a lie to their propaganda. What the caucuses showed was vibrant union democracy. Yes, leadership elected by the majority sought to vigourously promote one position on the election and others in the union vigorously counterorganized. That's democracy and it's the essence of what makes unions great.

Conservatives whine about union intimidation but the reality is that it's the employers who fire and otherwise intimidate workers, not union leaders. Yes, in a union movement of millions of people, someone can drag up an example, but its the employers who have over 20,000 legally recognized acts of intimidation each year. This is why new laws are needed to make it easier for workers to organize unions outside that intimidation.

What scares those rightwingers is that while those Vegas workers raucously organized against each other in the primary, they are likely going to combine their organizing efforts in the general election. The rightwing doesn't want workers to be able to freely vote and organize-- they want them disorganized and as powerless as possible.

Everything is else is the same kind of lie Lindsey tried to tell about the Nevada caucuses.