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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Democratic platform committee is only allowing 1 labor group-why isn't labor part of the base? [View all]LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)83. If you are going that route than another question to ask is why each state
only has one labor union member on their state central committee as DNC members?
The reality is that the DNC attempts to have different groups represented on the committees. As a labor union member I am not about to demand labor unions should have more representation which would prevent other groups from being represented. Especially, if those other groups would be representing other related interests.
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The Democratic platform committee is only allowing 1 labor group-why isn't labor part of the base? [View all]
azurnoir
Jun 2016
OP
because the DNC is corporate owned and does not want to hear the peoples voice
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#1
This place begins to sound more and more like Fox News...so now we are against Unions?
insta8er
Jun 2016
#79
no, I didnt say that. I want to save them. Corruption does exist in any large body
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#80
so you're admitting that the much ballyhoo'd union endorsements Hillary received were only
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#8
as to the Teamsters and Reagan if memory serves they cut a deal with him wherein he deregulated the
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#14
so Dana Vickers Shelley was lying when she said only one labor group allowed? ?
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#9
As was discussed a couple weeks ago, when this was posted numerous times, both Sanders and Clinton
SFnomad
Jun 2016
#6
Because the democratic party doesn't care about labor. Labor gets in the way of the lobbyists.
jillan
Jun 2016
#16
They excluded Rose Ann DeMoro, the President of the Nurses Union and his super-PAC
Starry Messenger
Jun 2016
#17
they said only 1 labor group, moreover it seems rather vindictive of the DNC to go back 16 years
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#19
So, if you supported Nader, you can expect to be blacklisted unto your tenth generation?
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#22
If you supported Nader, you really should not be drafting anything for Democrats. Nt
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#31
Even though that was sixteen years ago and this person has been back in the party for ages?
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#32
No one caused Nader's run but his egotism. That you do not see the sheer opportunism
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#51
That's ridiculous. Nader's positions are in line with the roots of the Democratic Party.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#34
It's smart. People who fell for Nader have no business leading Democrats. nt
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#50
Nor do people who support the TPP, private prisons, compromising a woman's right
cui bono
Jun 2016
#76
Because Bill Clinton sold labor out when he embraced the DLC and corporate money.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#33
The political party that labor built is no longer representing labor. My dad is rolling over
B Calm
Jun 2016
#38
In retrospect the eventual course of labor in America was set by the Hardhat Riot
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
#40
We're not about working people anymore. Now it telecomm, insurance and payday loan corporations.
Scuba
Jun 2016
#42
If giving monopolies to telecomms is "addressing infrastructure" we're doing a great job!
Scuba
Jun 2016
#63
Labor had already been picked and is represented as I posted in another post. nt
Demsrule86
Jun 2016
#85
The DNC allowed West and rejected the head of the nurses union-why would they do that?
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#71
Union leadership is represented on the full platform committee...this is the reason
Demsrule86
Jun 2016
#84
They're only confirming in THIS convention what they started to do in the 1980s...
MrMickeysMom
Jun 2016
#53
If you are going that route than another question to ask is why each state
LiberalFighter
Jun 2016
#83
seems a big deal that the Communication Workers of America now support Hillary
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#86
Interesting that the AFL-CIO endorsement of Clinton is being so strongly touted
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#91