[lbo-talk] Solidarity for Sale: The Nation's Bottom-Feeding Unions

Gar Lipow the.typo.boy at gmail.com
Sat Mar 11 17:07:22 PST 2006


On 3/10/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The AFL-CIO threatened to take to the streets if it passed. And
> Congress laughed - knowing that by "take to the street" they meant a
> protest march, and some hot air. If the CIO had still existed, that
> threat would have been scarier. <
>
> huh? the AFL-CIO didn't exist when Taft-Hartley was passed.

Shit. You are right. The downside of oral history.



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