Worse yet, unions have been completely unable and sometimes seemingly uninterested in stemming the flow of jobs and industries to Asia. However, they have occasional small successes such as preventing Boeing from building a plant in S. Carolina and friends in the White House misappropriating hundreds of million$ in Solyndra and other overpriced 'stimulus' jobs.
I hope the unions will wake up and realize that unions grow and are empowered when there is a demand for US labor. Hanging around waiting for handouts on the federal plantation hasn't been very successful. Unions trying to take control of the Wall Street demonstrations probably won't do much more long range good for the Wall Street protesters than the Republican Party had trying to harness the tea party movement. I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that these demonstrations might be channeled into the left version of tea parties. There must be efforts under way to harness the energy of Wall Street protesters.
History repeating itself?
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