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August 20, 2003

Dean's Pro-Labor Promises

I finally watched Dean's performance at the AFL-CIO Exec Council and I was duly impressed. His proposals for labor law reform were passionate and, more importantly, specific. Just like his web page which goes into incredible detail of massive reform of our labor laws, including requiring card check recognition, banning "captive audience" meetings with workers and giving union rights to supervisors, agricultural workers and independent contractors now without protection.

This is far more detail than JohnKerry, John Edwards (who doesn't even mention card check), Bob Graham (who doesn't even mention workers rights), and Joe Lieberman (little new reform proposed).

And while Gephardt probably supports everything Dean promotes on his web site, Gephardt. actually talks less about specific new labor law reform on his site. Kucinich falls in the same camp, although he has some interesting additional reform ideas like repealing Presidential power to shut down strikes. Sharpton's site is light on details as is Carol Moseley Braun.

Which all surprisingly leaves Dean with the most extensive labor law reform proposals in the campaign. Friends in some national unions tell me Dean is making serious inroads there, so this is all significant for his campaign.

Posted by Nathan at August 20, 2003 11:38 AM

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...still think a Kerry coronation is inevitable?

Posted by: Josh at August 20, 2003 01:43 PM

I never said Kerry was necessarily my first choice, just that I thought he'd win. And the Lieberman/Edwards/Graham supporters are still more likely to migrate to Kerry, but Dean is making a stronger bid for Gephardt's supoorters if he falters. But Dean is looking more formidable.

Posted by: Nathan Newman at August 20, 2003 01:59 PM

I was rather favorably impressed with Edwards at the AFL's debate--particularly that last question about labor law reform. My feeling coming off of that was like my feeling reading Dean's webpage on labor law reform--that they (or someone on their staff) understand the issues pretty well. (My post on the AFL debate is here.

Posted by: Jacob at August 20, 2003 02:24 PM

I should take this up on Kos or on one of the Edwards-booster blogs, but isn't it tough for a Southern candidate to come out for anything directly union-oriented?

Remember, every region of the country is short jobs now, and desperate people&pols don't get too concerned about "beggaring thy neighbor."

The thing is, when it comes to job growth I think Southerners believe that one of their biggest "comparative advantages" is non-union labor. So Edwards can talk the populist talk about "workers," but he has to be nervous about getting connected to union-building. A unionized South is interpreted as a reduced ability to swipe jobs from the North.

OTOH, the change in middle class favorable/unfavorable ratings ratio of unionization over the past 5 years or so is pretty amazing. Granted, the "Office Park Dads" have gone from "Unions are the worst thing since Mao" to "Well, hmmm..." but it's still massive improvement. Everybody's tired of playing Dilbert, I'm guessing.

Posted by: doesn't matter at August 21, 2003 10:25 AM

An interesting stat: the most recent Des Moines Register poll showed Dean polling higher in Union households then Gephardt. Of course, it was only two points higher but even the fact that he is competitive with Gephardt for this constituency is impressive. Gephardt has decades of Union cred while Dean is pretty much an unknown to most union organizations.

Perhaps the unions have just grown tired of Gephardt? They appreciate all he has done for them but they are questioning whether he can still do anything for them?

Posted by: Chris Andersen at August 21, 2003 03:43 PM

Chris--Do you have a url for the Des Moines register poll?

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August 20, 2003

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