[lbo-talk] ciao, unions

Mark Rickling mrickling at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 20:10:42 PST 2010


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


> They deserve a lot of blame. Where are they on fighting for a serious jobs
> program or single-payer health care?

So all those Republicans and Independents have turned against unions because they didn't support single payer or support adding $100s of billions to the deficit in a real jobs bill? When I think of what's changed in the past couple years to precipitate such a drop among those two groups, certainly seems like we're far more a focus for Fox News and other conservative media than we were 5+ years ago.

But I certainly agree with your larger point -- if we don't do something big, with vision, soon, we (union porkchoppers, union members, and the working-class at large) are fucked.



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