[lbo-talk] AFL-CIO & PNAC

[Lance Murdoch]

On 4/13/05, Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
> But I am always interested that those who demand union democracy also
> demand that the AFL leadership ignore quite divided sentiments on issues
> like Iraq.  Some unions did come to a consensus in opposition to the Iraq
> War, but many had strong enough pro-war sentiments among their 
> members that they didn't feel a strong antiwar position reflected their 
> membership-- which is how the AFL-CIO overall position no doubt evolved.

You mean like this?

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_041003_prowarPM.html

I also love your panglossian ideas about "how the AFL-CIO overall
position no doubt evolved", union democracy and the the AFL
leadership.

The US private workforce is 7.9% unionized and dropping like a rock
every year, thank God.  In a few years the AFL-CIO will completely
implode, and the American Federation of Labor will go into the dustbin
of history where it belongs.