[lbo-talk] "State of the Unions: Why labor still rules in New York—and what that will mean this November"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 22 05:42:21 PDT 2008


On May 21, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> Election Day 2006 was a cold one in Albany, so Danny Donohue,
> president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), wore a
> sweatshirt when he went out to wave a sign above his head, urging
> drivers to head to the polls on their way home. The sweatshirt was
> from Sen. Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign. The sign was from
> State Sen. Joseph Bruno's.
>
> "People stopped and said 'Are you confused?'" Donohue recalled. "And I
> said, 'No, I'm selective.'"

It's likely that Bruno will have a new job after January, so he'll need a new sign.

This sort of thing has been directly good for the unions involved, but New York has about the most unequal income distribution of any state in the U.S., so it's not doing much good for the working class as a whole.

But I suspect there's a good chance you might be a Republican by the time you're 30, Joseph.

Doug



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