Why Did the AFL-CIO Self-Destruct?

Times change...people change...

Inertia is a hard force to overcome....

Like I said..the key to getting unions back to the political center is to deny Democrates majority power....I'm thinking for around the same amount of time that republicans were out of majority power ...

What you are seeing is the struggle to decide whether to maintian the status quo...or see the reality of the political landscape...

The unions put all their eggs in one basket...they are waking to the fact that they have lost access....and the only way to gain access to either re-elect dems to the majority....or deal with the party in power...

What you are seeing is one indicator of just such a struggle...

I'm just one guy in one local...but I can tell you one thing...

9/11 was a watershed moment everyone...in more ways than one.... labor guys might not like rebuplicans all that much...but they really hate liberals...

I'm speaking of the rank and file...or the blue collar democrat type...

One saving grace of the blue collar type is they didn't spend a lot of time hanging around with leftist professors and students getting indoctrinated with theoretical BS. They were out where the rubber meets the road, making a living.

As I said earlier, 30 years ago I became very frustrated that unions weren't realizing what a great opportunity they had. If they would only, I said, decide to be the best instead of the meanest, they could really revolutionize our economy and country.

Employers could be courting the unions who produced the best workers in order to get the best. Unions could have become suppliers rather than enforcers. The unions back then could have been what employee leasing companies tried to be later plus more. There was a lot of money to be made by the unions while supplying a valuable service.

However, that is not the way they came into being nor their philosophy back then. I think the national leadership is still that way. You local guys can create your own revolution and change it all. I hope you do.

Heh...30 years ago I was playing with hot wheels...

30 years from now I'll be retried...and probably lementing how everything has gone to hell...damn punk kids...LOL

Thank you for the interesting dialoge.

Crimmy

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