All For None

Split on the candidates, unions hope to unite over a common agenda

By David Moberg

Always a major force in Democratic politics, the labor movement is playing a peculiar role in this year's presidential primary. Although the candidates have been more openly pro-union than at any time in the past several decades, labor unions only marginally affected the outcome in [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Given the involvement of the Obama campaign’s National Finance Chair, Penny Pritzker, in the Superior Bank S&L Scandal that you wrote about in your In These Times article of November 8, 2002, it’s unlikely that an Obama administration will be pro-labor and anti-corporate.  With Penny Pritzker as the first woman Treasury Secretary in an Obama administration, for instance, there would be no historical reason to expect that the economic situation of working-class people in the USA will change for the better anymore than they have in Chicago under the Pritzker family’s historical special political and economic influence.  See following link to your Nov. 8, 2002 article for more info about the role of Penny Pritzker in the 2001 Superior Bank scandal;

    http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/671/

    United States Posted by pritzkerwatch on Feb 13, 2008 at 8:37 PM
    United States Posted by Indemocrat on Feb 14, 2008 at 10:52 AM

    Something prevents my access to Comment on David Moberg’s article,
    Posted by Indemocrat on Feb 14, 2008 at 11:52 AM

    United States Posted by WatermelonGrower on Feb 14, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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