[lbo-talk] ciao, unions

[Alan Rudy]

I tell my students all the time that the problem isn't that folks in other
areas and other countries work for less than we do, the problem is that
people here haven't fought with people there to garner the people there the
wages, benefits, regulations and (what was once a certain amount of) power
folks here have/had.
I take it that your point runs parallel to the above: unions should have
fought the Cadillac Tax on the basis that everyone should have Cadillac
medical care rather than those with it being made to pay so that others
could have lousy insurance and Yugo care.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>  On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>   (I'm not putting the majority of the blame on unions but, from here in
>> mid-Michigan, its hard to see that they've helped their case much in the
>> Rust Belt.)
>>
>
> They deserve a lot of blame. Where are they on fighting for a serious jobs
> program or single-payer health care? Nowhere, man. Maybe some press releases
> on the former, and active complicity with Obamashit on the latter. Their
> biggest intervention in the health care debate has been to fight the
> "Cadillac tax," out of pure self-interest. It's one thing to fight the good
> fight and lose; it's another not to fight at all.
>
> Doug
>
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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