A top labor adviser to President Barack Obama and a central negotiator in union merger talks hinted late last week that it was unlikely that Change to Win and the AFL-CIO will finalize a deal by the target date of April 15.

"We've been having regular meetings and we're going to continue to do that. ... We hope to have something to show in the next couple of months," former White House transition adviser and ex-House Democratic Whip David Bonior (Mich.) said, declining to reconfirm the April 15 deadline. "Is it going to be all wrapped up by then? I can't tell you that at this point." Read More...