Not true. Last time I heard (about 5 months ago) 48% of white male union members supported Bush (internal AFL-CIO data). This sounds pathetic until one realizes this makes union membership the *only* large-scale class identifier that puts white males anywere on the anti-Bush side. You can drill down to white males at the lowest income levels, and they'll be majority pro-Bush.
This is just white males. Union members who are women and people of color are overwhelmingly pro-Democrat.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R" <rhisiart at charter.net> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:39:30 -0700
>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
>
>
>|
>| 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.
>|
>| Notably, even the Democratic candidates in Oklahoma, Georgia and South
>| Carolina are supporting the
>| bill.
>|
>| -----------------------------------------------
>|
>| BNA Daily Labor Report
>| Friday, October 22, 2004 Page A-4
>|
>| 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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