[surely_you_jest]

In a few years after Sweeny has retired(or we can hope be thrown out of the job), people will look upon his tenure as a overall disaster.

Personally, I hope Sweeny stay on a good, long time, and continues to bleed these guys white, until all of their lines of credit and other financial assets are gone, and they have absolutely nothing to show for it. Then, and only then, will it be time for Sweeny to go. Or join Hoffa. Whatever.

[JNB]

Having been in situations where the pendulum has swung far too much to the empolyer side, I see that there is a need for unions, but at least the AFL-CIO just does not care about workers in the trenches, all they care about is pushing whatever fashionable program upper middle class againg hippies want to push, even if it is against the intrests of the workers inm the trenches. I know many Freepers bitterly disagree with the need for unions, but they exist(at least on paper) to support the workers and stand up for workers), but in reality as another poster said, today they are a organisation of elites who have views supporting abortion, opposing gun rights, supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants(a postion that ironically further rots the postion of private sector workers and any attempt to unionise there), but yet lacked the will to take so called pro worker Democrats to task when the the approvale for Chinas addmitence for the WTO was up in congress in the summer of 2000.