http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/andy-sterns-rackets/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/andy-sterns-rackets/#comment-19663 Bebe LaDer Fri, 02 May 2008 04:49:28 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=1901#comment-19663 Some of your arguments seem simplistic and disingenuous. Yes, Andy Stern has been criticized in some progressive circles for stands that are perceived to be pro-corporate. Let's not forget that SEIU is the largest labor union in the country and it has a successful record organizing workers from all walks of life not just Registered nurses. . Rose Ann DeMor0, Director of the California Nurse's Association has been looked upon as a progressive largely due to her support for single-payer health care. Despite progressive positions in this and other areas, what she is engaging in in Ohio, Nevada and California is union raiding pure and simple. Her raiding and the subsequent trading of insults on the part of C.N.A, SEIU and "dissident" SEIU Local UHW are causing glee in the pages of the right-wing press. I don't see that any of the three of them has a viable program that would allow for a sense of moral superiority and justification for raiding. Meanwhile, the bickering becomes a tool that is and will be used against all workers and their unions. Just check out the right to work websites. Some of your arguments seem simplistic and disingenuous. Yes, Andy Stern has been criticized in some progressive circles for stands that are perceived to be pro-corporate. Let’s not forget that SEIU is the largest labor union in the country and it has a successful record organizing workers from all walks of life not just Registered nurses.
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Rose Ann DeMor0, Director of the California Nurse’s Association has been looked upon as a progressive largely due to her support for single-payer health care. Despite progressive positions in this and other areas, what she is engaging in in Ohio, Nevada and California is union raiding pure and simple. Her raiding and the subsequent trading of insults on the part of C.N.A, SEIU and “dissident” SEIU Local UHW are causing glee in the pages of the right-wing press. I don’t see that any of the three of them has a viable program that would allow for a sense of moral superiority and justification for raiding. Meanwhile, the bickering becomes a tool that is and will be used against all workers and their unions. Just check out the right to work websites.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/andy-sterns-rackets/#comment-19311 mjosef Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:33:45 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=1901#comment-19311 Okay, Ralph, yes I am confused. Without any endorsement of this Stern fellow, does the bill he proposed make a telling point? I am a state worker, in the defunct state of New York, and the pension fund I am associated with is fat and happy because of its investments in the very forces of corrupt corporate control and criminal destruction that I abhor in my private little conscience. Ralph Nader, in turn, has been criticized for having large investments in the very corporations he derides - where do the connections and complicities end? How can we talk about unions when all of us are so caught up in trifles as the supersytem rolls on? Okay, Ralph, yes I am confused. Without any endorsement of this Stern fellow, does the bill he proposed make a telling point? I am a state worker, in the defunct state of New York, and the pension fund I am associated with is fat and happy because of its investments in the very forces of corrupt corporate control and criminal destruction that I abhor in my private little conscience. Ralph Nader, in turn, has been criticized for having large investments in the very corporations he derides – where do the connections and complicities end? How can we talk about unions when all of us are so caught up in trifles as the supersytem rolls on?

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