[lbo-talk] Pollitt on Dean

[Nathan Newman]

I will say -- I've been skeptical of Dean but watched a replay of his
performance at the AFL-CIO and he had some of the best articulated pro-labor
positions of any candidate. And his website is far more specific than any
other candidate (including Kucinich) on the details of labor reform he'll
do.

See
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_statement_labor

He talks about captive audience meetings, card check, extending labor rights
to farmworkers and independent contractors, and speeding up NLRB elections.

So he's a bit more than a DLC darling; in many ways the media is so
blissfully ignorant on labor issues that they don't notice that Dean is
promising as much to labor as Gephardt.

-- Nathan Newman