Saturday, December 10, 2016

The next four years are shaping up as a disaster for organized labor

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-organized-labor-4dd6715e3974#.5xadhat9i
"give a light tap to Trump’s friend-of-the-working-man act, and you’ll find it rings hollow. His deal with Carrier saved fewer jobs than he claimed, and he shut the union representing employees entirely out of negotiations. He may have had less to do than he claims with a $50 billion domestic investment by the Japanese firm Softbank — and there’s no evidence this investment will produce the 50,000 U.S. jobs that he promised it would. And anyway, the deals with Softbank and Carrier are stunts involving individual companies, not economy-wide policy. On that level, the early indicators as to how Trump will govern do not look good. In particular, all signs point to a prolonged, all-out assault on organized labor."