Labor Day: Wishful Thinking

AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, center, greets Jimmie Woods Gray of the UTLA, right, as Janis Carroll of the SEIU looks on, left, during a Labor Day rally in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. Speaking to cheering teachers, firefighters and nurses , Sweeney argued that cuts in government services and taxes had sapped the Bush administration’s ability to react to the Hurricane Katrina crisis.

The San Francisco Chronicle has LABOR DAY REFLECTIONS, An end to the decline of unions?

This is not a happy Labor Day for the labor movement. But even though unions are in deep trouble, their membership numbers and economic and political influence steadily declining, their future actually looks promising.

Wishful thinking for the Union Bosses!

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