Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara on Tavis Smiley

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4. Yeah, I ended up paying more attention to Tavis' comments.

Michael Moore talks about an economic bill of rights too, it was something FDR tried to push through but it didn't make it. I'd like to see worker protections in the constitution, I think that's something labor could unite on.

There are still a lot of union people alive today who vote Republican--I know the national federation seems to cleave to the Democratic party as a matter of course, but they actually do have to make the case every election to their membership to not vote for right-wingers. Sad but true.

I think unions will see a shift to the left as more and more fast-food workers and service people enter the labor movement in the US. It's a younger and much more diverse demographic.