MediaShift Idea Lab . Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA | PBS

MediaShift Idea Lab . Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA | PBS:

"At their best, organized labor is one of the most surefire ways to create a more equal, sustainable instance of capitalism.

They are the people who brought us the weekend and ended domestic child labor, a more recent phenomenon than we might like to admit.

In recent times, the middle class has been under siege for years by politicians erasing taxes on the rich while simultaneously cutting benefits for the poor.

Unions have the power to make things more fair, and as a result, they're under constant attack.

But at their worst, unions can behave as reactionary organizations that respond purely to the financial interest of their members,

or even just their employers' commercial interests, at the expense of the general good of society"

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