"Casino vote is a blow to labor"
"by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | March 24, 2008
.... The casino vote highlights the extent to which the labor community is smaller, more fractured, and less influential in electoral politics than it once was. It also highlights the limits union power has on Beacon Hill.
When faced with the decision of whether to side with unions or the powerful speaker, who controls virtually every word of every bill that comes to the House floor, the contest was not even close.
"I think labor still has clout in general in primaries and in general elections, and I think legislators take organized labor very seriously, but the power of legislative leadership trumps the power of organized labor and virtually everyone else," said Philip Johnston, former chairman of the state Democratic Party....
Except when it comes to the power of the LOBBY and WAR PROFITEERS who finance campaigns!!!!
Labor unions' political power in Massachusetts has been diminished by declining union membership.
Only about 13 percent of the state's residents were union members in 2007, compared with about 25 percent in the late 1970s - reflecting a national trend created by the loss of manufacturing jobs, the deregulation of unionized industries, and the rise of antiunion companies like
Yeah, thanks globalization!!
WAKE UP, shit-chewers!!!
Quit sniffing starlet ass!!!!!
