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Small tent labor?
Eric Blanc has a post up at Jacobin that questions why leaders of 4 major unions voted against adding M4A to the DNC platform.
…among those who voted no on Medicare for All were also four prominent national union presidents: Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Lily Eskelsen Garcia of the National Education Association (NEA), Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Lonnie Stephenson of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
This is outrageous.
Indeed.
Unions once held significant power in the job market and politics, but they’ve been on the wane for decades. Given their inability to support an obvious measure like M4A in the current moment, it’s worth questioning whether they’ve outlived their usefulness. It might be time for something more generalist in nature to look after workers’ interests.