-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:11 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] English on SEIU
I am shocked that the unions give only $100k. Is supporting Democrats that much higher a priority?
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:01:17PM -0500, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> I don't work at EPI any longer so I can address this a bit.
>
> Union support of EPI, one logical place for such research, to me
> always seemed minimal. The big international unions gave on the
> order of $100K a year. For them that is not very much money.
> EPI has about 50 people. It ought to have several hundred, or
> there should be two or three EPIs. (On the latter, that is regarded
> among unions as a no-no, "duplicating effort.") Nor was there ever
> much effort to put EPI people in front of union members. Methinks
> there is a concern about message control and face time.
>
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