>From the speech at Brookings: "If we want to propel this economy forward [and] have a sound expansion, it has to be an expansion whose benefits are more broadly shared," he said. That involves tax policy and education, he said, but also "goes to the question of having a healthy and well-functioning trade union movement. . . . It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the way in which our labor laws have functioned, and have been enforced and been acted on over many years, have not been constructive from the point of view of having a healthy trade union movement. And an attempt to redress that balance seems to me something that is appropriate at such a time."
Who knew? Labor Union Bill Raises Broader Capitalism Issues Economic Downturn Intensifies Rhetoric of Workers Alec MacGillis, Washington Post, Sunday, March 15, 2009; Page A02 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/14/AR2009031401823.html -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
