[lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill

[R]

gosh this is inspiring.  now the dems are a minority in congress; now that 
unions are busted; now that union jobs are fewer and fewer; now that NAFTA 
is moving toward FTAA and "free trade" agreements abound; now that the WTO 
and IMF are calling the shots, privatizing the world economy into the hands 
of MNCs *violently* against unionization; now that union members generally 
vote republican unless confronted by shrub, "virtually all dems" are "more 
pro-labor" -- which actually means Pro-Union not pro-labor -- the dems favor 
a card check bill and are trying to masquerade as being more pro-labor than 
a generation ago, when they were hardly pro-labor at all.

very heartening, nathan newman.  what a gas.

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Newman" <nathanne at nathannewman.org>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:26 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill


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| More evidence that the Democratic Party is more pro-labor than it was a
| generation ago.  Where significant numbers of Dems once sided against 
labor
| in many votes, virtually every single Democrat is supporting the Employee
| Free Choice Act, the "card check" bill being pushed by the AFL-CIO.
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| Notably, even the Democratic candidates in Oklahoma, Georgia and South
| Carolina are supporting the
| bill.
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|
| BNA Daily Labor Report
| Friday, October 22, 2004 Page A-4
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| Virtually All Democratic Candidates
| Pledge to Co-Sponsor Card-Check Bill
|
| The AFL-CIO has garnered pledges from virtually all Democratic candidates
| but from few Republicans to co-sponsor a bill (S. 1925, H.R. 3619) that
| proponents say would expedite the union organizing process.
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|