Union Leadership in Bed With Hillary

It’s important to distinguish the union leadership from its rank and file. Anyone can see that Hillary Clinton (or Bill) has done nothing for rank and file labor. Anyone can see that Obama has done nothing for the rank and file. Anyone should be able to deduce that the Democratic party must have  done quite a bit for the income earned by the leadership because no matter how badly the Democrats treat the rank and file, the leadership continues to endorse these Democrats. Union leadership will never endorse Sanders because he does not have the resources to keep these leaders economically comfortable.

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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