<div style="DIRECTION: ltr">Doug wrote:</div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr">>He said almost exactly those words to me on the phone a week or two ago.<</div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr">And he once told me that Andy Stern could blow him, but I didn't take that to mean an invitation to the SEIU boss for a liaison. Read his book, and then decide if it all reduces to "they just want the dues money." </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr">MH<br> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> <div class="ea"><span id="e_109c7ddc549904da_3"><font size="1">- Show quoted text -</font></span></div><span class="e" id="q_109c7ddc549904da_3"><br>Doug<br>___________________________________<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk" target="_blank"> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></span></div><br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Henwood</b> <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Michael Hirsch wrote:<br><br>>On 3/4/06, Doug Henwood <<mailto:<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com"> dhenwood@panix.com</a>><a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br>>  >>It's a polemical reduction, of course, but it's pretty broadly<br>>applicable, don't you think? Which is pretty good for a theory<< <br>><br>>It doesn't matter what I think or you think in this case, but what<br>>Fitch thinks, and he's proclaimed no "law" that says unions by<br>>definition care only about dues.<br><br>He said almost exactly those words to me on the phone a week or two ago. <br><br>Doug<br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br> -- <br>________________________________________<br>`And these words shall then become<br>Like oppression's thundered doom<br>Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>Heard again -- again -- again--<br>`Rise like Lions after slumber <br>In unvanquishable number--<br>Shake your chains to earth like dew<br>Which in sleep had fallen on you--<br>Ye are many -- they are few.'<br>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:<br>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819] <br><br>