Mr. Gerard is too much of a gentleman to call these anti-public option Democrats out for the two-faced whores they truly are. Any Democratic member of Congress who stands opposed to the public option (or withholds support with the lame excuse that it is not doable) is willingly and knowingly serving as shill for the insurance industry....nothing more...nothing less.
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tom mathews
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The painful experience of many thousands of highly skilled workers in New York City occasioned by the diminution of the garment industry was fully shared by similar workers in my own state of Pennsylvania. From some 40 years ago, I can still remember a giant billboard erected along U.S. 22 west between the NJ/PA border and Allentown: "Welcome to Pennsylvania; home to 75,000 members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union" Today, there are perhaps less than 4,000 union members working in my state's "garment" industry, nearly all of them now employed in a small number of large distribution centers where …
Posted to NYC Garment Workers: A Rags to Riches to Rags Story
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I agree with much of your article on those unlearned lessons from New York City's Shirtwaist Strike of 100 years ago, only noting that this same strike was declared at a meeting held in New York's historic Cooper Union hall where Abraham Lincoln once spoke. Even more important was the fact that had it not been for a member of the ILGWU rank and file, the union's more timid all male leaders might not have sanctioned any strike. This garment worker, 18 year-old Clara Lemlick, had managed to take the floor that night, frustrated by endless discussion that threatened to bring …
Posted to Lessons for Labor—and Progressives—from 1909
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