Eight years ago, President George W. Bush took office and we started what was to become one of the most popular stops on www.aflcio.org: BushWatch.


Over the years, we've chronicled the Bush administration's executive orders, vetoes, policy decisions, legislative initiatives, regulatory actions and inactions that have had a direct impact on working families--none of it good.


We limited our scope to areas like job safety, health care, workers' rights to form unions, jobs and the economy, civil rights and other real-world worker issues. It would take a superhuman effort to keep track of the Bush assaults and misdeeds on the environment, foreign policy, privacy rights and more.


With Barack Obama moving into the White House next week, we bid farewell to BushWatch as Bush heads back to Texas to lie about his legacy.


In the meantime, let's look back at some of his more memorable, outrageous or evil actions--take your pick, depending on your indignation threshold. Today, we'll revisit eight painful years of attacks on workers' freedom to join a union.