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22. Blaming the workers is an excuse to hide the fact that

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Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:55 PM

Feb 2015

managerial incompetence is what destroyed the business.

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Nicholas Kristof: Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions. ... I was wrong. [View all] pampango Feb 2015 OP

"I was wrong." Wow. Good on you, Kristof. Hard to admit so publicly, but closeupready Feb 2015 #1

Hitler says: "I was wrong about the Jews." I don't buy Kristof's conversion. He does what ND-Dem Feb 2015 #37

I say welcome to the party tech3149 Feb 2015 #2

Maybe this epiphany will open his eyes in other areas too. Elmer S. E. Dump Feb 2015 #5

So your European car laborer makes TWICE what your American one does randys1 Feb 2015 #3

How many Red Staters read the NYT? Wellstone ruled Feb 2015 #4

You can bet your bottom nickel Drudge won't pick up on this one. Elmer S. E. Dump Feb 2015 #7

Baby Steps: I'll take 'em n/t LittleGirl Feb 2015 #6

i am a union member unionthug777 Feb 2015 #8

So am I! Glad to see this awakening. calimary Feb 2015 #14

Me makes three!!!! wolfie001 Feb 2015 #16

UFCW worker present! nt. druidity33 Feb 2015 #29

No shit, idiot ProfessorPlum Feb 2015 #9

Thank you - that's exactly what I was thinking. TBF Feb 2015 #11

Same here, whathehell Feb 2015 #31

I doubt he's in earnest about it. He's been corrupt for too long. I suggest an ulterior motive. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #36

Well, better late than never. maddiemom Feb 2015 #50

1 convert at a time. ibewlu606 Feb 2015 #10

Welcome to DU, ibewlu606! calimary Feb 2015 #15

welcome to DU! renate Feb 2015 #39

Some Union Officals Are Abusive polynomial Feb 2015 #12

I used to be extremely anti-union ybbor Feb 2015 #13

At least you woke up. And that's a VERY good thing! calimary Feb 2015 #18

Glad you saw the light wysi Feb 2015 #32

I don't understand why your anecdote would result in anti-union. seabeckind Feb 2015 #44

It was a culture in the town that ran deep ybbor Feb 2015 #51

Around the 1970s the unions reached their strongest point. maddiemom Feb 2015 #49

Look who's come with medicine after the patient is dead. valerief Feb 2015 #17

+1 freshwest Feb 2015 #30

Good to see someone countering all the anti-Union propaganda! eom wolfie001 Feb 2015 #19

unfortunately the same guy who slung the anti-union propaganda for decades ND-Dem Feb 2015 #35

Good article. Lots of facts. K&R. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #20

yeah yeah thanks but Skittles Feb 2015 #21

Blaming the workers is an excuse to hide the fact that muntrv Feb 2015 #22

It made management's job very easy for decades. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #26

I smell a rat Enrique Feb 2015 #23

Kristof is a complete pos weasel. Not to be trusted. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #25

+100 he's a stooge if there ever was one. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #34

+1 leftstreet Feb 2015 #45

K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Feb 2015 #24

It was total victory for me when Republican husband finally admitted the good Thinkingabout Feb 2015 #27

Democracy and equality in the work place! nt. WDIM Feb 2015 #28

gee, thanks you dumb fuck. a bit late, don't you think, now that unions are at less than ND-Dem Feb 2015 #33

I don't believe this is sincere-- I'm waiting for some other political shoe to drop. Marr Feb 2015 #38

definitely a propagandist and in the pockets of some people that have names. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #40

They're all waking up malaise Feb 2015 #41

fi you read closely, you see this is not really an epiphany, barely counts as a limited hangout. KG Feb 2015 #42

Posted to for later 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #43

Americans used to equate Unions with the Mafia.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #46

Jimmy Hoffa vs. Scott Walker. Which is worse? nt valerief Feb 2015 #52

I just had a vision of Walker.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #53

That image brightened my day! :) valerief Feb 2015 #54

I like to picture Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz that way too. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #55

Only also with flesh-eating bugs eating them from the inside out. valerief Feb 2015 #56

Kristof starts awake from a thirty-year nap. Orsino Feb 2015 #47

Nice to hear: But a decade late and hundred dollar bill short Populist_Prole Feb 2015 #48