[lbo-talk] union money

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 11:24:49 PST 2006


On 2/11/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>Meanwhile, you might persuade one or two frustrated unions to abandon
political action altogether and to spend their PAC money on extraparliamentary campaigns and organizing, but it's unlikely they would be able to abstain for very long given all of the political decisions which affect the working conditions and living standards of their members. The unions and social movements learned early that they need sympathetic legislators and regulators and judges to defend and advance their rights - these days, mostly to defend them - so they're inevitably compelled to raise political action money on behalf of the liberal parties against the conservative ones, even through clenched teeth. Unions who withdraw their support from the Democrats, if they don't abstain, become "Gomperists" who look for sympathetic Republican candidates, who are rarely more progressive than their counterparts on the Democratic side. <

a lot of union members are Republicans. Shouldn't the union leadership consult the members about which candidates (if any) to support? In that case, "extraparliamentary campaigns and organizing" might be the way to go...

-- Jim Devine Bust Big Brother Bush!

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