AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 7 14:17:48 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
>
>
>>Yes, but they also gave pretty good support to local and state public
>>employees unions fighting privatization. . . .
>
>-How? The only thing I know of was blocking
>-then Gov Bush from privatizing Medicaid &
>-Food Stamps. Not a small thing, but was there
>-anything else?
>
>Along that lines, Clinton officials refused to allow a number of state
>programs, in health and human services especially, from handing over
>contracts to private firms. And the whole Project Labor Agreement approach
>made sure that in many cases, the local governments had no incentive to
>privatize just in order to escape unions, since they would just be exchange
>one union for another.

Hey, union density fell by 23% in the Reagan years - but a mere 16% during the Clinton era!

Doug



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