Ideologically bankrupt, crisis and turmoil are in store for the AFL-CIO leadership

Left: A fox in the hen house; a friend of Labor leaders, not Labor
 The piece below reflects the complete bankruptcy of the trade Union leadership.  In the face of a historic crisis of the capitalist system that has resulted in massive increases in unemployment, homelessness, destruction of people's lives, the heads of an organization with 12 million or so people in it advise us to send an e mail to a Senator becasue he won't support extending unemployment insurance.

The other side of it is that this is a Republican senator.  The heads of organized Labor are wedded to the Democratic Party so part of their strategy (in order to get Democrats elected) is to go after Republicans.  Their man Obama is in the pockets of Wall Street like all of the politicians of capital.  The present administration that the Labor hierarchy helped put in to office with thousands of volunteers and $400 million or so of workers hard earned dues money has championed the firing of an entire school district's teaching staff, has spent $30 billion, one million per person, sending 30,000 more working class youth to kill and be killed in the predatory wars for US corporations. Where, we might ask, is the Employee Free Choice Act?  Obama has doled out billions to the banks and is now doling out more to the health insurance companies with the recent health bill that made sure to stick it to womens  reproductive rights. The list goes on.    

The situation within organized Labor cannot continue forever---the dam will eventually be breached as the crisis forces workers, including members of Unions to take action.  The heads of organized Labor will be convulsed at some point with turmoil from below; heads will roll, others will adapt, playing progressive roles for a moment as they ride the tide but all the time trying to restrain any movement that threatens the system, the so-called free market that the heads of organized Labor consider the end of civilization. John L Lewis is an example of this.

The AFL-CIO's statement below is childish, somewhat laughable, it reflects the unnecessary misery and pain that workers have to go through due to the refusal of the heads of the mass organizations to fight. But they are not monolithic, like rotten apples that cling to the branches of the tree---they fall en mass with with the coming of a strong wind,  and a lot more than a strong wind is brewing in the depths of organized labor.

From the AFL-CIO

Mar. 31, 2010

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) last week blocked an extension of unemployment insurance benefits for hundreds of thousands of jobless workers (http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/k71d1_91SaMq/). Now he is trying to pin the blame on others. Click here and tell him his revisionist history won't fly
(http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/o11d1_91SaMA/).