IBD: Choices Ahead For Today's Unions

INVESTORS.COM, 9/3/2010 - Politics: Less than two years ago, everything seemed to be breaking unions' way. Now they're on the defensive. Something went very wrong on the road to the liberals' idea of paradise. ∴ This Labor Day weekend is the official kickoff point for what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a "massive mobilization" to elect Democrats in November. To hear him tell it, voters face a choice between "a fundamentally different economy that values hard work and a strong middle class" or a return "toward one that puts corporate interests before people." ∴ But the labor movement faces a choice, too. It can keep going down the road to political disaster, or it can wise up and realize that a "fundamentally different economy" is not really what people want. ∴ They want prosperity and jobs, not a government-led war against capitalists [Emphasis added]. And they have a bone or two to pick with the unions themselves. Read more at IBD...