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

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R" <rhisiart at charter.net>
-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.

Of course, not what I said, but what's your point?  Pro-labor Democrats
never had a strong majority in Congress and never enough to overcome the
joint GOP-southernDem filibusters that blocked labor law reform.  Today,
many of those former conservative southern Dems are now Republicans, but
the encouraging thing is that there are competitive Democrats running in
those states who are pro-labor.

Forget the blabbing on about trade agreements-- I've pointed out endlessly
that large majorities of Dems voted against NAFTA, fast track and a range
of other trade deals in the last decade or so.  So what's your evidence
that Northern Democrats were not pro-labor in the past?  They opposed
Taft-Hartley and supported labor law reform repeatedly-- it was only
GOP-southern filibustered that stopped it's enactment.

So why keep repeating lies and distortions?  I swear, listening to George
W. Bush and to a lot of LBOers often seems like the same experience-- 
statements taken out of context to lie and distort.

The basic fact is that we need 60 pro-labor Senators to get labor law
reform.  Which means that if you care about labor law reform, you should be
cheering on the victory of pro-labor southern Democrats as crucial for
building toward that margin.

Or do you really think big rallies in Washington, D.C. are intimidating to
GOP Senators from Red states?

Nathan Newman