[lbo-talk] amazing stupidity of a union president

[Doug Henwood]

[This letter 
<http://www.workinglife.org/FOL/pdf/BuffenbargerJuly2005letter.pdf> 
has to be read to be believed: the problem isn't that the US union 
movement is shrinking, it's that the population and labor force are 
growing!]

At 4:02 PM -0400 7/11/05, Jonathan Tasini wrote:


>Folks: Don't worry, be happy. Or so says Tom Buffenbarger, the 
>president of the Machinists union, in the second of his recent 
>curious letters. He doesn't see the decline of the labor movement to 
>8.5 percent of the private sector as the problem at all. I have the 
>letter and commentary at:
>
><http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/07/earth_to_tom_co.html>