Laura Flanders offers a succinct take on the current mood of working families and organized labor, as the recession wears on and President Obama — the man for whom unions spent $200 million during the 2008 election season — fails to deliver on key pieces of labor’s agenda.
“Union Families expect more — and top union officials are already expressing strong concerns,” Flanders says, referring to leaders’ statements at last week’s AFL-CIO meeting in Orlando, “that if they don’t get more, soon — don’t expect them to be able to deliver or Democrats in the fall.”
To watch the video at GRITtv at full size, go here. (And as a side note, since I’m a GRIT fan, Flanders’ “‘F’ Word” segment is a regular feature on GRITtv, the daily cable/public TV/satellite/web program she hosts. The show has just taken up residence at its new online home at www.grittv.org. Lookin’ good, GRIT!)
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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.
