Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.
Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.
The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.
Collective Bargaining was the compromise.
It was what we agreed to do instead of dragging our bosses out of their houses in the dead of night and beating them to death in front of their families.
I feel like people don't remember that as often as they should.
The editor should have changed that “Could” to “Will”.
One reason the GOP hated the Unions was that Labor would do a lot of ground level organizing for the Dems. Things like getting petitions signed; driving voters to the polls; putting up signs. The Left failed to step up its ground game when the unions were decimated.
So was clinton and bush and obama who tf are you trying to fool?