What the (US) Union Fight is Really About


 An interesting article from Mother Jones delves a little deeper into the agenda behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers attack on the states state's public-sector unions.

The article argues that this was not ‘just one more skirmish in a longstanding ideological battle’, simply an attack on public-sector workers' pay, benefits and collective bargaining rights, but one leg - of a three leg strategy - where the ‘goal is not so much to advance one party's agenda, but to actively undermine the infrastructure that allows the opposing party to exist at all”.
 
This three leg strategy —union bashing, minority redistricting (a tactic, dubbed "Project Ratfuck”) and tort reform – has the cumulative effect, the article argues, of “defunding the Left”. Just what is left about the Demarcates is moot that said however these who really are in the sights are ordinary working people.

Well worth reading click here
 
Also keep an eye on Labor Notes 'Wisconsin Special Report'