On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Mark Rickling wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Organized labor in the
>> USA is not just opposed to socialism -- it's opposed to social
>> democracy, not just abroad (through the Solidarity Center), but here
>> as well.
>
> I certainly wouldn't go this far. For instance, thanks to the recent
> affiliation of the California Nurses Association, the AFL now supports
> single payer.
Really? Is this now the AFL-CIO's official position? Have we SEIU's rival, the CNA, to thank for this? The old dinosaur's position is now more progressive than CtW? It's a funny old world, to quote Mrs Thatcher.
Doug