[lbo-talk] Unions: Resuscitate or pull the plug?

[Michael Hoover]

>>> JBrown72073 at cs.com 03/07/06 1:46 PM >>>
Union dues are one of the few organized pots of money that is not rich 
people's money funnelled through corporate and family foundations, corporations, 
etc.  Union pension funds are another source of political power.  If you want to 
instead fight for universal health care, living wage laws or labor law 
enforcement, how are you going to fund that?  Cookie sales?  And since our wages will 
go down upon the demise of our unions, we won't have a lot left over to give 
you, even if we could be organized to do so (which also takes money.)
Jenny Brown
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union locals have been prinicipal funders of living wage campaigns (currently 
about 130 successful ones around u.s.), union folks played important role in 
local organization here in orblando and i understand that to be case in most 
other places as well, florida teacher union was major contributor to successful 
campaign to create state minimum wage higher than that of federal level...   

local media in central florida pretty much ignores organized labor, orlando 
slantinel editor's head spun around some years ago when i asked - at a forum
on news coverage - why paper had business section, but no labor section, 
notion simply didn't register on person's radar screen...  mh