for your amusement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 23 11:40:34 PST 2000


Patrick Bond wrote:


>Although jan carowan is a classical e-jerk (especially re election
>comments), the main point he's making here is real...

Yes it is, and anyone else who wants to make it, or follow up on it, is welcome to. Just not him (and I'm assuming this Jan is a him).

It was interesting to see George Becker saying nice things about our Treasury Secretary-designate, Paul O'Neill, in the NYT the other day:


>But just as often, he has displayed an independent streak. He
>reached out to labor, for example, ending Alcoa's sometimes
>adversarial relationship with its union, the United Steelworkers of
>America. Together with George Becker, the Steelworkers president
>with whom he became friends, Mr. O'Neill devised a new model of
>collective bargaining, helping produce a research paper on the
>subject that the Steelworkers union circulated to other corporate
>executives.
>
>"This man would make a great treasury secretary in any
>administration, Democratic or Republican," Mr. Becker said.

Doug



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