Sweeney hits Bush for waging war on workers

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 4 00:05:14 PST 2001


At 05:49 PM 12/3/2001, you wrote:
>[What's gotten into him? Class war, or bluster?]

maybe the guy has finally realized that some future ashcroft/shrub executive order could put enough of his guys in jail or in the army that he wouldn't have a job anymore. . . .

either way, i'll take bluster 1000 to one.


>Monday December 3 8:32 PM ET
>
>AFL-CIO Chief Says Bush Waging War on Workers
>
>By Peter Szekely
>
>LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - AFL-CIO President John Sweeney urged union leaders
>on Monday to ``take the offensive in a war here at home'' against the
>president, congressional Republicans and corporations who he accused of
>waging a war on workers.
>
>Walking a fine line

finest kind . . .


>between support for President Bush (news - web sites)'s response to the
>Sept. 11 attacks and condemnation of his other policies, Sweeney kicked
>off the 66-union federation's biennial convention with a call to recruit 1
>million new union members a year and elect more labor-friendly lawmakers.

R



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