UAW president hails “labor-management” partnership following sellout of Volvo strike
Detroit News Tuesday titled “UAW works with employers for union members.” The
Detroit News, a Republican Party-aligned newspaper and longtime mouthpiece of the auto bosses, regularly publishes columns by the UAW president, Teamsters President James Hoffa and other Michigan union bureaucrats who have proven their worth to big business.
Ray Curry in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2015. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)
In his July 20 op-ed, Curry dispenses with any suggestion that unions should have an “adversarial” relationship with the corporations and touts the UAW’s long-standing embrace of corporatism and labor-management “partnership.”
By Caleb T. Maupin Mighty Ira Glasser: An old school liberal with an unbroken political compass.
Arecently produced clip from the UK-based journalist Michael Rotenshtern shows the Democratic Party from an international perspective. The clip misses a few details that are worth noting. Let’s review the history of the twists and turns of this strange political organization.
The Democratic Party is the oldest political party in the United States, and it is also the most corrupt. While the political character of the Democratic Party has evolved and shifted over the years, one key part of its base has not: urban political machines.