"Madison is just the beginning!" AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka told a union rally in Annapolis on Monday. "Like that old song goes, 'You ain't seen n-n-n-n-nothing yet!' "
Fresh from defeat in Wisconsin, union leaders are planning a new campaign not just to head off future challenges to their collective bargaining powers but also to make the case that organized labor's benefits and prerogatives -- wages, health care, and pensions that are more generous than those of comparable workers in the private sector -- are the moral equivalent of rights won by black Americans during the civil rights movement.
To make the point, the AFL-CIO is planning a series of nationwide events on April 4, the 43rd anniversary of the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after speaking in Memphis, Tenn., on behalf of striking black garbage collectors.
The message: King's cause, and that of angry schoolteachers in Madison, are one.
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4 comments:
bahhahaha. Does anyone take that seriously? Give me a break. lmao
Fresh from defeat in Wisconsin
are the moral equivalent of rights won by black Americans during the civil rights movement.
The message: King's cause, and that of angry schoolteachers in Madison, are one.
Why do others try to equate whatever they are trying to accomplish with black civil rights?
Are they trying to shame others into accepting whatever their agenda might be?
No 235, I don't take them seriously. I find them disgusting.
Politically that would be smart. We all take a collective step back when something is equated with civil rights. It becomes a third rail of politics. If union rights becomes the equivalent of black rights, then the movement to diminish or end public unions will die a very quick death in most, if not all, of the states.
When in imminent defeat, play the race card!
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