Thomas Geoghegan admits he’s biased. The labor lawyer writes in the opening pages of his fourth book, See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation (New Press, 2007), that his background colors his observations about labor and the labor movement. A 1975 graduate of Harvard Law School, Geoghegan has practiced labor law, mostly in Chicago, for more… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesIf you want to revisit Civics, you need to remove the big money from politics.
How many reforms have been enacted over the years that were going to put an end to the abuses of the political system? The lawmakers put enough loop holes in these reform laws to turn a set of Turnpike Doubles around in. And should somehow those loop holes be closed, the politician’s just flat ignore the law. Like Tommy Delay, after his first Censure in the House, emerging claiming that he had been completely vindicated. He finally did “retire” taking all his bribes back to Texas.
Unions, at one time served a very useful purpose. But they got too top heavy with “management” and had to keep raising dues to pay the management team (the Unions management, not the employee’s management).
Now thanks to the Shrub’s handler’s, Unions are again going to be needed.
But they need to take a hard look at the UAW and not price their membership out of work.
No automaker, or any other business, can pay its help $20+/hr and compete against an import that uses $10/hr labor ... not without Tariffs.
Free trade is good. As long as it is between equals. What we have now is anything but between equals.
Posted by farmer on Apr 23, 2008 at 1:48 PM On quick correction, Federalist Society (1982) would be 3 administrations, or 5 terms under Republican presidents.
If we could solve something big, really big, like health care, I think people would feel that they could make a difference, that the power dynamic had shifted back to the people, or was starting to shift.
It took 70+ years of erosive efforts by the conservatives to get us to this place. Hopefully it would take less than 10 years to restore much of what has been lost.
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