Remember a couple of years ago when all of the LBO e-mail pals were all hot and bothered about the prospect of Junior Hoffa becoming the international president of the Teamsters. At that time I told you that Junior was not the anti-christ; even though I'm not big on dynastic succession. Like I said then and I'll say it now, I've seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go. The only constant is the rank and file member.
Often times unions have problems that reflect back to the type of work that they do. A good example would be a janitors, elevator operators and shoe shine boys union making the final transition to a white collar union. Their problems reflect that transition.
Tom
Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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