A Fighting Chance was not the most exciting book I’ve read this year (that would be a John Sandford police procedural), but it was the most profound. Let me quote just one paragraph on unions, and you can see why Warren has made an impact. In the section on her campaign against Scott Brown, she discusses how the union fight for better wages and shorter hours and retirement security benefited all Americans, not just union members.
Often enough during the campaign, I would hear the phrase corporate and labor influence in politics, as if “corporate” and “labor” were somehow two sides of the same coin. Really? Does anyone believe that an army of lobbyists fighting for tax loopholes and special breaks for one corporation is the same as the unions fighting for Social Security and equal pay? Does anyone believe that when corporations give money to take down unions and support so-called right-to-work laws, there are unions giving equal money to try to put companies out of business (and themselves out of a job)? Does anyone think that for every billionaire executive who can afford to write a check for $10 million to get his candidate elected to office, there is a union guy who can do the same? Give me a break.
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