Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Christine Donohue

Christine Donohue is running for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  She’s been given the highest rating by the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and she would be a great addition to the Court.

She’s also a Carbon County native from Lansford.  Her father was a coal miner; her mother worked in the textile industry.  

How did a local girl from Lansford get the money to go to college and law school?  Her father was in the United Mine Workers; her mom in the ILGWU.  Union jobs, union pay, upward mobility.

Today the Morning Call ran an article entitled “Poll:  Most support workers’ right to unionize.”  Let’s hope so--countries that forbid workers from unionizing have a name.  They are called “dictatorships.”


The article noted that a majority of Republicans think the decline of unions has benefited workers.  These people do not inhabit the same world in which I live.

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