2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders' momentum stalls in an unlikely place: union halls [View all]riversedge
(70,239 posts)Hillary knows how to negotiate--has had lots of experience around the world. Not saying Sanders does not know how but seems he does want it all (forgets we have Republicans and tea-baggers who control Congress-)--Sanders wants a Revolution-wants his supporters to rise up. How--millions of marches on DC??
.....Its a classic tension between the head and the heart, said Lance Compa, who teaches labor law at the Cornell University School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Union leaders are feeling particularly risk-averse this election, with a hostile Congress and a Supreme Court that has labor in its crosshairs. The court will be hearing a case against the California Teachers Assn. that poses an existential threat to public employee unions nationwide, with justices weighing whether to ban them from requiring the employees they represent to pay dues. Labor leaders are horror-struck by the prospect of a Republican president filling the next Supreme Court vacancy.
Union leaders are negotiators by nature, Compa said. They understand you cant get everything they want. You get the best deal in the end. That is what they are looking at now as they weigh whom to endorse.............