Labor

politico.com — You have to give Gov. Walker and his wealthy patrons credit. Here we have a situation where Wall Street fat cats wrecked the economy - people like Richard Fuld, Robert Rubin, and Angelo Mozilo - and they've somehow managed to blame schoolteachers and the highway patrol.

Now we have a situation where the villains are sitting on their hundreds of millions of dollars, while tough guys like Gov. Walker are beating up school teachers to take away their $2,000 a month pension. And, the best part of the story is the Walkers are being heralded as statesmen for their efforts.

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washingtonpost.com — All but forgotten is the fact that our nation's extraordinary prosperity from the end of World War II to the 1970s was in significant part the result of union contracts that, in words the right wing hated Barack Obama for saying in 2008, "spread the wealth around." A broad middle class with spending power to keep the economy moving created a virtuous cycle of low joblessness and high wages.

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dailykos.com — Our governments are short of revenue, and even unionized workers in the public sector face job elimination and furloughs. The governments are short of revenue because of continuing unemployment, lack of profit sharing with those helping by their productivity increase the profits while corporations sit on massive amounts of cash, give bonuses to executives who cut jobs, and ramp up their political spending to continue this inequity thanks to a horrid Supreme Court decision that gives a corporate "person" disparate political influence.

These things are wrong.

These things need to change.

Without unions these things not only will not change, they will worsen.

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