Solidarity For Never

Marty Kaplan
HuffPost

Since conservative orthodoxy has turned out to be voodoo economics after all, now would be an excellent time to unmask its demonization of labor unions as yet another con job that big business has pulled on the American people.

You know the knock on big labor. It's bleeding the private sector. The health care benefits and pension plans it has extracted from the private sector are ruinous to global competition. Its contracts prevent bad workers from being fired. Unions are losing members, they're losing power, and as a sign that organized labor is in its death throes, its number one goal - the price it's extracting for helping Democrats win - is stealing the right to a secret ballot from American workers. Is nothing sacred?

This menacing caricature of labor is standard Republican dogma, core CEO doctrine, conventional Washington wisdom, kneejerk media narrative and a traditional Beltway litmus test of Democrats' neo-liberalism, common groundism, post-partisan centrism, and countless other euphemisms for a willingness to shaft the workers who voted for you.

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