>On Behalf Of Dace
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>>"The violence was a relatively small group of agitators,"
>> Sweeney said. "We had
>>an organized march of somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000, and it was as
>> orderly a march as one could ever see."
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> Genuine agitation seems to make Sweeney uneasy.
Yeah, right. Sweeney as head of SEIU has led campaigns that have blocked bridges coming into downtown DC, provoked mass arrests by janitors across the country, most notably in the Los Angeles Century City fight where blocking streets by SEIU members and supporters led to a police riot against them (including a later $2.3 million payout to SEIU and the victims). And the result was that over 85% of the Century City janitors were unionized within the next few years.
When Sweeney was running against Tom Donahue for head of the AFL-CIO, Donahue attacked Sweeney for this history, saying "street fights ... [are] a formula for disaster." Sweeney argued that labor had to be out there "blocking bridges" where Donahue's call was for "building bridges."
What is "genuine agitation"? Again, this "lefter-than-thou" stuff is incredibly arrogant. How many mass arrests have you organized?
-- Nathan Newman