Thanks!!
michael yates
Michael Hoover wrote:
>
> > Cheers to Katha Pollitt for resigning her editorial post at the Nation
> > (she will remain a columnist) in protest against the magazine publishing
> > a signed editorial by a rightwing entrepreneur by the name of Unz. Unz
> > wrote about public schools and while he is opposed to vouchers, he says
> > many ridiculous things about schools. Pollitt correctly points out that
> > the Nation has given this dog a liberal credibility utterly undeserving.
> > Also, Doug's article on social welfare spending and poverty in various
> > nations in the last LBO is excellent. Check it out.
> > michasel yates
>
> folks who haven't read Michael Yates' book _Why Unions Matter_ (and I
> sheepishly admit to not yet having done so) should check out Jane
> Slaughter's review in May 30 issue of *In These Times*...
>
> Slaughter (who used to be with Labor Notes, is she still?) concludes by
> saying that Michael is:
>
> 'positive about the real differences made by the "new AFL-CIO" under
> John Sweeny, and he argues lucidly for changes that (he knows) the
> current AFL-CIO Executive Council will never make. That's where we
> get back to the role of reds and the "struggles for the hearts and
> souls of our national unions." _Why Unions Matter_ makes an excellent
> text for worker education or a college labor studies class. Yates'
> challenge to the conventional progressive wisdom should be discussed
> in all labor arenas, expecially those where debate is usually
> squelched.'
>
> Michael Hoover