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There was a time when Andy Stern, then president of SEIU, was the great hope of the left. He was the great enlightened labor leader. It never exactly panned out that way and since he retired from SEIU, Stern is now making his money as a professional union buster. He's on the board of directors of the Broad Foundation, and is an official advisor to the "National Parents Union", which is also an education privatizing astro-turf group associated with the Walton Foundation. As for the current union leadership? “There must be some misunderstanding for a respected labor leader, who spent a good part of his life helping working people, to embrace a Walton-funded group dedicated to attacking them,” said Randi Weingarten of the AFT. Yes, there's a "misunderstanding" (if you want to call it that)... on the part of Weingarten, who also participates in, not helping working people, but keeping the most militant layer suppressed. The fact that Stern could turn to open union busting and the fact of the tepid response of Weingarten really shows where the present union leadership is at. See the full article on this here: https://splinternews.com/high-profile-labor-leader-has-a-new-gig-fighting-agains-1836597318?fbclid=IwAR0K-HvfxXvtKPGfBMdrD0JsbmfFAW7yBpllaB0fyrIGkPiNcPBuoI7fnbk -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
