diogenes

  I caught IAM president Tom Buffenbarger and Vic Fingerhut on C-SPAN discussing a poll the IAM had commissioned Fingerhut to perform. Directly from the IAM website: “The survey revealed dramatic political potential for the candidate or party willing to give more than lip service to America’s blue-collar concerns. Every job creation idea tested in [...]

Ever since Reagan fired the air-traffic controllers, unions have faced the most hostile environment of any organization in America. The legal, political and cultural environment has resulted in a decline of union membership from 16% in 1989, to 8% of private sector jobs in 2004. And that’s down from the 1950’s high water mark of [...]

  (Inspired by an AlterNet article on John Edwards and his support for labor unions as part of his anti-poverty strategy, reader diogenes was inspired to write the following piece which echoes what Markos and Jerome say in Crashing the Gate:  there is an extremely important bridge that needs to be built between between the [...]