[ASDnet] NEW DEM DAILY: A New Economy Labor Movement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 7 09:18:51 PDT 2001


Max Sawicky wrote:


>I remember all the angst when Junior Hoffa won the
>Teamster election; the AFL was going to be taken over,
>the dinosaurs were coming back, etc. etc. It was all
>bullshit. The 'right-wing' AFL unions are often more
>progressive on economic issues than some of their
>bretheren.

Yeah, and Gus Bevona got great contracts for his members - much better than the progressive icons trying to organize janitors in LA, for example.

So why is this? Do they have to prove something when they take power, while the pwoggies can just coast on their good reputations? Or are the pwoggies more interested in impressing the liberal intelligentsia than delivering for their workers?

Doug



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