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:: Sunday, August 03, 2003 ::
Despite tough times, labor still packs political punch BY DICK POLMAN
PHILADELPHIA - It's a bad era for organized labor. The global economy has helped deplete the membership rolls, a conservative White House has been demonstrably hostile, and there's no hiding the fact that, in America today, only 9 percent of private sector workers are unionized.
So why are the Democratic presidential candidates trekking to Chicago on Tuesday? Why are they going hat in hand to the AFL-CIO? Why are they competing so feverishly for labor's official blessing, to the point where they punch up their populist rhetoric and vie for the title of working-class hero?
Here's the deal: In the economic realm, labor may appear to be on the ropes, but in the world of contemporary Democratic politics, labor's punch is arguably as powerful as it was back in the bygone days when boss George Meany was chomping on his fat cigar.------------------------------------------- posted 7:40 AM :: reference link ::
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