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We’re better off with what we have now than with this horror show that the Senate passed - between the flagrant violation of women’s right to abortion to the requirement that every American buy insurance (on the insurance companies terms) we’re better off with what we have now than with this horrible bill!
Organized labor has no right to expect a public option especially since it has done little to pressure Congress to accept such. Not criticizing Congress or the White House will get Trumka, et al what? Continued invitations to “parley” with Barack? PLEEEZE!
American labor has alot to learn about making change. Where there is no will to fight, there is no change!
I totally agree with you, Brother Frank - Organized Labor didn’t do a damned thing to pressure Congress about health care - which is one of the reasons we have that awful bill that passed the Senate!
So long as the labor movement remains attached to the Democratic Party and remains in the mindset that it must do things within the system, nothing will change.
In labor’s hey day workers engaged in strikes, sit in’s at factories, mass picketing, secondary boycotts, etc.
Today the labor guys in business suits won’t do anything that might offend their bosses in the DNC. Today’s labor leaders would have never made it during the Great Depression!