AFL-CIO: endorse Al, stay out of jail

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 28 13:44:59 PST 1999


Tom Lehman wrote:


>This type of anti-union & anti-union leadership editorializing comes out
>before any election. Some hack in the pay of some right to work lobby will
>write something slanted in the name of progress attacking union support for
>one candidate or another. This stuff (via Mike)was slanted toward Bradley,
>the next piece you see maybe slanted toward Gore or whoever. The main
>objective of the story is not to help the candidate named, but, to make the
>union movement look bad!

Which isn't hard sometimes, Tom, you've got to admit. What the hell were Carey & Trumka doing with that money? What the hell is Arthur Coia all about? Gus Bevona? I'll defend organized labor when they do something good, but you can't ignore that they do plenty of awful stuff.

Doug



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