[PEN-L:9416] Re: Re: Let's slow down here

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And didn't the AFL-CIO remove its anti-communist provisions from its constitution within the last few years ?

Charles Brown

>>> Michael Yates <mikey+@xxxxxxxx> 07/21/99 09:44AM >>>
The section of the Taft-Hartley law which forced union officers to sign
oaths that they were not communists was struck down finally by the
courts many years ago.

michael yates

Sam Pawlett wrote:
>
> Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> >
> > The differences are fiundamental.
> >
> > Ideologically, capitalist unions aim at preserving capitalism against the
> > emrgence of socialism while socialist unions aim at destroying capitalisnm to
> > build toward socialism.
> >
>
>  Unions in capitalism usually aim at protecting the workers who belong
> to them the best they can. Most unions in capitalist countries do not
> have a statement in their charters stating "we are for capitalism and
> against socialism". BY LAW, unions in the USA and those who work in
>