So, they did, and he did what he said he'd do.
What you have to do is bifurcate what FDR is saying there ~ part of it is a promise to AFL-CIO (etc.) affiliates and the other part is a warning to the Commies.
The pro-American postal unions then spent a fair amount of time in the streets beating the pulp out of the Commies.
Understood- FDR was nothing if not a wheeler-dealer. My only point in even posting the letter was EVEN the leftist of all leftists- FDR -could see there was a limit.
I heard Anthony Sanders from George Mason University and The Mercatus Center speaking on collective bargaining for government and why it was an extraordinarily bad idea. He asked “Why don’t we permit collective bargaining for the military? Everyone knows that essential services cannot be covered by collective bargaining. So, only the unimportant government positions are covered like teaching. Basically, teaching can be done at home or on the internet. The unionized schools are unessential babysitting camps where students are taught about Marxism. Unessential and unwanted. That is why teachers getting $400k annual pensions is so outrageous. Unessential, part-time workers getting $400k per year.”
Teachers booed him. “The truth hurts, doesn’t it?”
I heard Anthony Sanders from George Mason University and The Mercatus Center speaking on collective bargaining for government and why it was an extraordinarily bad idea. He asked “Why don’t we permit collective bargaining for the military? Everyone knows that essential services cannot be covered by collective bargaining. So, only the unimportant government positions are covered like teaching. Basically, teaching can be done at home or on the internet. The unionized schools are unessential babysitting camps where students are taught about Marxism. Unessential and unwanted. That is why teachers getting $400k annual pensions is so outrageous. Unessential, part-time workers getting $400k per year.”
Teachers booed him. “The truth hurts, doesn’t it?”