[lbo-talk] "The Glorious Future that American Unions Walked Away From"

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 19:54:04 PST 2008


On Jan 21, 2008 11:22 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> what the fuck are the unions thinking? What payback would there have
> been for supporting the wrong guy in the primary? Whoever the
> eventual Dem nominee is will need union cash and phonebanks. Is it
> caution, like this piece suggests, or is it that they really *are*
> the labor lieutenants of capital and are acting accordingly?

The conventional wisdom among the organizing class is that the union apparatuses are responding to actual pressure from the rank and file. Their leadership generally favors Edwards, while their staff (an overlapping category in many cases) does so overwhelmingly. But the base seems to prefer either Clinton or Obama.



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