(Source: In These Times, October 24, 2012)
Labor leaders have painted a stark picture of what might lie ahead should Romney win. Overheated rhetoric is a hallmark of every campaign season. But the GOP’s and Romney’s positions on labor and collective bargaining—from support for a federal union-weakening “right-to-work” law to eliminating most public-sector bargaining rights—are genuinely to the right of where they were even four years ago. The 2012 GOP platform represents a new level of aggression toward the labor movement.
None of this rhetoric is surprising. But the totality of what the party and its current standard bearer now call for is breathtaking.
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