> and attacking us for "hurting the progressive movement" while they
> are meeting with the Republican leadership of the NY Senate "to help
> the GOP keep control." (see below)
This is absolutely ridiculous. 1199SEIU has grown into the largest and most powerful union in the state BECAUSE it was willing to play one party against the other. I won't make new enemies by naming names, but those unions that have chosen to remain devoted lapdogs of the Democrats have done, to put it charitably, less well for their members.
(I know that of which I speak. A housemate and an upstairs neighbor are both members, and man! do they bring it in. Probably more than Doug might like, since the neighbor can afford to help all his teenage kids buy cars.)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."