The economic crisis, particularly the Big 3 meltdown, is offering the right what they see as a new opportunity to break unions and destroy any advances workers might have expected under a progressive government.I said much the same thing a few days ago. The "right" can't crush anything at the moment, but the right combined with Democrats looking to make deals is another story. I fear that a pro-corporate, pro-bailout, pro-single payer health insurance, anti-union coalition is going to coalesce. And, unfortunately, our friends are going to cut us adrift to get health care.
When someone close to Obama says that there may need to be some restructuring of labor deals between the Big 3 and UAW, you will know that someone made a decision and we lost. And it will portend more such close calls over the next 4 to 8 years.
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Maybe I'm naive, but I feel like any "restructuring" would be specific to the UAW-Big 3 relationship. But I guess we won't know until the rubber hits the road.
Also, who's the guy with the cigar?
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