Union seeks Republicans. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)

FOR AN EDITOR OF A LEFT-LIBERAL publication, Harold Meyerson is surprisingly uncritical of one of the most appalling labor trends in recent years ["Union Seeks Republicans," Oct. 21, 2002]. When former 1960s leftists, who went into organizations such as SEIU, HERE or UNITE to help transform the labor movement, end up embracing--as union presidents--a political strategy indistinguishable from that of old-guard Teamsters or conservative building-trades officials, something's wrong. Meyerson might have cited the political trajectory of John Wilhelm's Boston ...