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Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
« on: June 25, 2025, 09:19:48 am »
Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
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As the Democratic party fights to rebuild from a devastating election defeat, the abrupt exit of the presidents of two of the nation’s largest labor unions from its top leadership board has exposed simmering tensions over the party’s direction.

Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders quit the Democratic National Committee, saying it isn’t doing enough to “open the gates” and win back the support of working-class voters. Ken Martin, the new DNC chair, and his allies told the Guardian that the party was focused on doing exactly that.
 
Weingarten, president of the 1.8-million-member American Federation of Teachers, resigned after Martin did not renominate her to serve on the DNC’s important rules committee. In her resignation letter, Weingarten wrote that education, healthcare and public service workers were in “an existential battle” due to Donald Trump’s attacks and that she did not “want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent”.

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Re: Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2025, 11:05:41 am »
Aw shucks.
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Re: Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2025, 05:39:55 pm »
Public sector unions should not exist.  (Even FDR agreed with that.) 

Personally, I think labor unions' political expenditures should have to be approved by the rank-and-file (and corporations' political expenditures should have to be approved by the shareholders):  what is truly obnoxious about them is that they represent not the political views of the workers, but the views of professional labor organizers. (Just as what is truly obnoxious about corporations' political expenditures is that they represent not the views of the shareholders, but the views of the professional managers.)
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Re: Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2025, 06:05:23 pm »
I reckon that both weingarten (a bona fide communist) and Saunders (public employee union) left was because the DNC leadership wasn't RADICAL ENOUGH for their tastes.

They want a party that is further to the left.
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