republican union members

[Andrew English]

My got feeling is a lot of that 40% votes GOP because of wedge issues (gay
rights, abortion, tough on crime, guns)
designed to split the labor vote.  A lot of those votes would be won back if
we had a labor party
with a strong working class appeal.  The wedge issues are so prominent
precisely because on
the basic economic pocketbook issues the two corporate parties are so much
alike.

-Andy English

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Rene DeCicco <bdecicco at umich.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #3089


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>> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:14:42 -0500
>> From: "Andrew  English" <aenglish at igc.org>
>> Subject: Re: One-Half Cheer for the Old Guard!
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>> I think the UAW's Yokich's overture to Nader is a less devious, more
>> straight-forward
>> attempt to push the Dems to the left on trade.  If the UAW did come out
for
>> Nader that would
>> be an earthquake.  The UAW is in the heart of the industrial-public
sector
>> union coalition that
>> dominates the AFL-CIO these days.  However, I think if Gore makes some
more
>> substantial
>> pro-union noises, the UAW will retreat from its flirtation with Nader and
>> back Gore.
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>Last I heard, 40% of the UAW votes Republican.  Backing Nader is
>possibly too far left for a lot of these guys, who don't like
>liberals (and the engineers at Ford are actually surprised to
>find out that somebody is a Democrat).
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>Barry
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