conditions for working people in general and the labor movement
specifically. Labor leaders' denial of Obama's anti-labor record is not sustainable,
they will be eventually be forced to recognize reality and denounce their beloved
President Obama as a betrayer of his promises, but not before wasting hundreds
of millions of more dollars in dues money.
During the past year the AFL-CIO began a pilot program running
labor union candidates for office on the Democratic Party ticket. Instead
of trying to repair a sinking ship, labor should instead abandon the
Democratic Party and run its own candidates as independents; the local
and national levels, including for President. They could run on a platform
calling for massive federal, state and local jobs-creation programs in order to
put the 25 million unemployed workers back to work. And this could be the first step in
creating a labor party that would really represent working people.
Shamus Cooke is a social worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (http://www.workerscompass.org)
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